Everyone knows your location
timsh.org
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

An amazing bit of digital detective work here. Seems like Linux mobile is your only off ramp from being exhaustively tracked

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    I think it’s more: “Don’t use a smartphone”. It’ll send those requests through any internet connection. No matter if it’s a VPN or Tor.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Same, same. But the occasional app refusing to work due to missing Play services, all the Instagram posts everyone except me took notice of, and all the hoops I have to jump through, kind of remind me of that regularly.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Google hardcodes DNS into their hardware appliances…
      So you’d need to block outgoing DNS requests except for your DNS server and god forbid you change location with a smartphone.