Comment on Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Route all or traffic through tor. Never log into anything. Never use the same identity twice. Ahh and live in a hut in the woods never going to shops or cities that have security cameras.

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  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think it's more: "Don't use a smartphone". It'll send those requests through any internet connection. No matter if it's a VPN.

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I forgot I’m in a minority of people running a properly secure degoogled ROM.

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      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Same, same. But the occasional app refusing to work due to missing Play services and all the hoops I have to jump through kind of remind me of that regularly.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Google hardcodes DNS into their hardware appliances…
      So you’d need to block outgoing DNS requests except for your DNS server and god forbid you change location with a smartphone.

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      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think this is about apps and not the operating system. But yeah, the stock ROMs also phone home to Google. You'd need to patch that. For example like custom ROMs like GrapheneOS do. I don't see another viable alternative. But that still leaves you with the issues with the apps mentioned in the article.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    …where are chains allowed to abuse security camera footage for ad tracking?

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bunnings in Australia until very recently and u have basically 0 protections in the states.

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Using firefox in strict mode with ublock origin, cookie auto-delete, and a VPN to change your IP should stop location tracking and cross-site tracking. Sites will still know you’ve visited them and what pages you’ve been to for that session but that is impossible to stop.

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I imagine an ad blocker could prevent this data going out, unless the hosts were generic and the game/app simply won’t work without allowing those connections. I’ve never seen an app be [obviously] broken from my ad blocker but I am interested in running a similar experiment to see just how much data is going out.

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• mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Use a custom DNS and/or hosts file. You can cut them off the grid by blocking data upload to SSP. Don’t install many apps, for games that can be played offline, play them offline.

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• bilb@lem.monster ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  None worth pursuing

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