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Everyone Knows Your Location https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/
We all kind of know this but seeing it laid out with examples is something else
tim.sh · Everyone knows your locationHow I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.
@robb what scares me is how many companies and how many people are willing to trade this data and "violate" people's privacy just because it is lucrative and make some money.
@robb excellent write up, I am at the same time annoyed, and yet less annoyed than I was about the time I spent denying access for apps on my Android phone
@robb They are always making it harder for people to maintain their privacy.
@robb I’m curious how the ad SDK gets a lat/lon without having access to phone location. IP address lookup? Would Private Relay / VPN thwart that?