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

(timsh.org)
1957 points apokryptein | 4 comments | 02 Feb 25 17:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.792s | source
1. sedatk ◴[03 Feb 25 04:44 UTC] No.42915072[source]▶
It's a bit ironic that Privacy Badger extension finds 7 trackers on the article's page.
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2. dlikren ◴[03 Feb 25 06:04 UTC] No.42915427[source]▶
It looks like these all come from the Reddit embed in the middle of the article. Default uBlock Origin settings blocks 13 urls (and more, due to Reddit's frequent pings), but disable 3rd-party frames brings it down to 1 url (since the original embed was blocked).
3. timsh ◴[03 Feb 25 08:24 UTC] No.42916096[source]▶
oops, here comes the price of a nice-looking Reddit embed. next time I’ll stick to a screenshot :) thanks!
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4. sedatk ◴[08 Feb 25 17:37 UTC] No.42984558[source]▶
Great article regardless, thank you :)