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

    • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Multiple middlemen are better than just one. Also, you can test its effectiveness.

    • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, a middleman you get to choose. That’s a huge improvement. There are plenty of trustworthy VPN providers.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      So use a trustworthy middleman? Surely you can find someone more trustworthy than advertising companies?

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      You can set up wireguard vpn on a tiny instance in Amazon or Google, and bounce traffic through that one. Then you control what gets logged (Amazon may have logs over all outgoing connections from all instances somewhere though).

      You can even make it change it’s public ip every day if you want.