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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads (timsh.org)
submitted 4 days 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 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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 2 days ago

GrapheneOS is not magic.

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