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

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    54·
    2 days ago

    Not the magic bullet people think they are.

    No one thinks VPNs are “magic bullets”. I don’t know why this gets repeated ad nauseum.

    Oh, and you can’t turn it off, so you’ll have to take the loss in network speed on absolutely everything.

    True but it’s not that bad.

    And better know how to configure each device so it doesn’t go ahead and check leak your IP anyways

    Just choose a good provider. You don’t need to configure anything.

    if any device on your network ever connects to the net without the VPN, then your anonymity just went out the window.

    That’s what kill switches are for.

    • ramjambamalam@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      No one thinks VPNs are “magic bullets”. I don’t know why this gets repeated ad nauseum.

      Ooh, I know why! It’s because YouTubers hawk their preferred (sponsored) VPN as if it was silver bullet and that it’s dangerous to use your mobile device out in public or worse – public WiFi – without it. You can’t blame John or Jane Doe from parroting what their favourite YouTuber claimed.

    • forrgott@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I agree it’s a powerful tool! I was specifically responding to “problem solved” in the previous comment. My reply was in no way meant as a general review of VPNs.