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
    5·
    9 months 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.

    • ramjambamalam@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Author noted:

      As a quick note - location shared was not very precise (but still in the same postal index), I guess due to the fact that iPhone was connected to WiFi and had no SIM installed. If it was LTE, I bet the lat/lon would be much more precise.

      And this was with location services off. How precise is a “postal index” in the author’s country (presumably Spain) I wonder.