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

  • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    It’s in a perpetual state of leakage in a sence that it’s a trade item that gets sold between different companies. You can’t leak that, really.

      • Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Every hacker group or indeed a random guy, can get and routinely gets this data for very cheap. It’s not news because its the norm.