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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

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1957 points apokryptein | 1 comments | 02 Feb 25 17:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | source
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EveOffline ◴[02 Feb 25 20:47 UTC] No.42911663[source]▶
Very interesting and disturbing research, definitely a wake up call for me. Does anyone know/can anyone recommend me software that can block these sorts of requests from going through? I know of pihole which blocks adds but does it also filter out these sorts of things?
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1. ActorNightly ◴[03 Feb 25 00:29 UTC] No.42913428[source]▶
You need to have a wifi only android phone, rooted, no google apps, and uninstall anything that talks to the internet. That includes analyzing network traffic, open ports, and so on.

I did this with a Kali Nethunter distro back in the day for "reasons", privacy not being one of them. This makes the phone very hard to use for regular things.