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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: 0.234s | source
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BubbleRings ◴[02 Feb 25 22:45 UTC] No.42912645[source]▶
I clicked the link at the beginning of your article, that led to the Google sheet with the list of apps. That list had 12,373 lines, not “over 2,000”, fyi. And while most of the apps looked like small time games that I have never downloaded and would probably not download, I saw included there “Microsoft Office 365”. Interesting.
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1. thadk ◴[03 Feb 25 02:48 UTC] No.42914375[source]▶
Here's my messy list of all the apps I recognized in that Google Sheet: meetup, tinder, crunchyroll zynga/wordswithfriends, Microsoft Outlook com.microsoft.office.outlook, Weather channel, Microsoft 365 (Office) com.microsoft.office.officehubrow Opera Mini browser beta com.opera.mini.native.beta, BuzzFeed - Quizzes & News com.buzzfeed.android Tetris® Block Puzzle com.playstudios.tetris4 Sonic the Hedgehog™ Classic com.sega.sonic1px Grindr Flipboard: The Social Magazine Flightradar24 | Flight Tracker Bejeweled Blitz com.ea.BejeweledBlitz_row FarmVille 3 – Farm Animals Plants vs Zombies™ 2 com.ea.game.pvz2_row SimCity BuildIt 913292932 Tetris® 1491074310 Opera Mini: Fast Web Browser com.opera.mini.native TuneIn Radio: Music & Sports 418987775 Yahoo Mail – Organized Email com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail Angry Birds 2 com.rovio.baba Skip-Bo 1538912205 CamScanner - PDF Scanner App com.intsig.camscanner Rakuten Viber Messenger com.viber.voip Candy Crush Saga 553834731