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

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1957 points apokryptein | 1 comments | 2/2/2025, 5:07:00 PM | HN request time: 0.26s | source
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mickgardner ◴[2/2/2025, 11:48:00 PM] No.42913128[source]▶

I find it fascinating reading hacker news, full of IT folk who simultaneously build software that enables and profits from the advertising and personal information selling & tracking industry - are also the same people who complain the loudest about it. Unbelievable.

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1. boesboes ◴[2/3/2025, 10:31:00 AM] No.42916850[source]▶

Yes, because everyone on Hackernews is identical and working on the exact same stuff. It's not like it's a few companies enabling this and each marketing department going like oooooh i want that.