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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: 0s | source
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psanford ◴[02 Feb 25 17:34 UTC] No.42910143[source]▶
Don't use mobile apps that could just be websites.
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dylan604 ◴[02 Feb 25 17:36 UTC] No.42910164[source]▶
Extended to add don’t use websites without blockers. If they are willing to track via app, why would we think they would not track via browser?
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nicbou ◴[02 Feb 25 18:11 UTC] No.42910436[source]▶
The browser has less access to your system, and usually only if you give a specific website permission to use these features. Mobile operating systems are slowly changing that though.
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scarface_74 ◴[03 Feb 25 02:30 UTC] No.42914282[source]▶
Have you looked at the latest JS standards?
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mirkodrummer ◴[03 Feb 25 05:49 UTC] No.42915359[source]▶
what is contained in the latest js standard that does let you collect fine grained information of your users without their consent? web apis that have to deal with sensitive data all requires explicit user confirmation to be used
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1. scarface_74 ◴[03 Feb 25 12:24 UTC] No.42917471[source]▶
The more access to your system that a web page has, the better it can fingerprint you. All of those ApIs aren’t going to be opt in