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

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1957 points apokryptein | 2 comments | 02 Feb 25 17:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source
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Jean-Papoulos ◴[03 Feb 25 07:32 UTC] No.42915854[source]▶
By "location", the OP means country. So not exactly a GPS point to 6 decimals... This is the second time I've seen a post with this problem here.
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1. Einenlum ◴[03 Feb 25 07:44 UTC] No.42915903[source]▶
There's also, latitude, longitude and IP.
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2. nedt ◴[03 Feb 25 10:23 UTC] No.42916809[source]▶
But that latitude and longitude might still be the middle of some city or country and not an exact location. It's not really clear how close it is.