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

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    but it won’t be very accurate

    Which they actually acknowledge in the blog post.

    Kind of interesting that they’re smart enough to understand how to sniff packets but not enough to understand that IP address = location.