Everyone knows your location
timsh.org
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

An amazing bit of digital detective work here. Seems like Linux mobile is your only off ramp from being exhaustively tracked

  • plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    5 hours ago

    The sample data shared in the article includes

    "c": "ES", // Country code,

    ES is usually used for Spain, so it looks like these tests were run from within the EU.

    • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      13·
      5 hours ago

      Ah, there’s also this piece in json:

      "uc": "1", // User consent for tracking = True; OK what ?!

      My guess is that developers are pretending to get user consent to get more money from the ads. Unity could be encouraging this somehow but good luck proving that.