If you like to checkin manually to places, there’s PrivateSquare which will query places around you from Foursquare (so, 4sq will still see whereabout you are), but store the actual checkin in a local database.
If you want some automated tracking, I’m mostly happy with OwnTracks which logs to my DaWarIch instance. (I’ve previously used Traccar and php-owntracks-recorder.)
While I don’t see any battery usage from OwnTracks, my only gripe is that it can’t increase the amount of points logged when it detects movement because of Apple iOS limitations.
(For iOS, there’s also Geory which will log into a local database and CAN increase the logging by spawning a Live Activity. It gives me the most accurate logs so far. But they have to be exported manually to be stored elsewhere and the author wants to keep the app simple and doesn’t want to implement logging to external systems.)
I’m running SpotWeb to browse spots. It’s kind of a curated list of NZBs. So, most things you can find a spot for, are still actually available to download.
It was heavily used by the Dutch to distribute movies with baked-in (“ingebakken”) Dutch subtitles for older media players.