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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads (timsh.org)

submitted 1 month ago by the_abecedarian@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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

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[–] not_me@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If you start with a xiaomi, then a motorola and finally end with a custom rom grapheneos smartphone, your number of trackers and bloatware will have dropped by more than 97%

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

GrapheneOS is not magic.