diff --git a/docs/architecture.adoc b/docs/architecture.adoc
index fdfa8ff..d636e3d 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.adoc
+++ b/docs/architecture.adoc
@@ -251,6 +251,16 @@ Locate fall back to the browser's own
 mechanism — with its own toggle/marker/recentering-per-fix, since
 that's the one case this control does own the tracking itself;
 clicking again in that case stops the watch and removes the marker.
+Deliberately *not* `.gnss-marker` (`GnssControl`'s green dot) for that
+marker — reusing it for a browser-estimated position too made it look
+like this control was somehow still using GNSS data even when it very
+much wasn't (a real report from testing this: a browser's own
+location, wifi/IP-estimated on a machine with no GPS chip, can jump
+around noticeably between updates, and a green dot doing that reads
+as "the GNSS simulator, leaking somehow"). Uses MapLibre's own blue
+pulsing `.maplibregl-user-location-dot` (`maplibre-gl.css`) instead —
+the same look GeolocateControl itself had here before, and visually
+distinct from GNSS's green on purpose.
 
 === Debug inspector (Alt+click)
 
diff --git a/public/js/locate.js b/public/js/locate.js
index ff382aa..87fd68e 100644
--- a/public/js/locate.js
+++ b/public/js/locate.js
@@ -89,10 +89,17 @@ export class LocateControl {
   // first fix, since that's the one jumping from wherever the map already
   // was; easeTo for later updates, a plain pan/zoom-preserving follow
   // rather than repeating that same swoop on every update.
+  //
+  // MapLibre's own blue pulsing "user location" dot styling
+  // (.maplibregl-user-location-dot, maplibre-gl.css — the exact look
+  // GeolocateControl itself used here before), not GnssControl's green
+  // .gnss-marker — reusing that green for a browser-estimated position too
+  // looked like this control was somehow still using GNSS data even when
+  // it very much wasn't; distinct colors for distinct sources.
   _setPosition(lon, lat) {
     if (!this._marker) {
       const el = document.createElement("div");
-      el.className = "gnss-marker";
+      el.className = "maplibregl-user-location-dot";
       this._marker = new Marker({ element: el }).setLngLat([lon, lat]).addTo(this._map);
       this._map.flyTo({ center: [lon, lat], zoom: Math.max(this._map.getZoom(), 15) });
     } else {