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

  • hera@feddit.ukEnglish
    42·
    17 hours ago

    All HTTP requests include your ip address, you don’t “consent” to giving it to anybody. You can geolocate somebody based on ip address but it won’t be very accurate

    • MangoPenguinEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      True, it’s storing the IP address that is the issue.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      11 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.