Does turning off wifi, force stopping apps, clearing cache, and using a privacy friendly browser work? I been doing that for years and I don’t see any intrusive/malicious/super specific targeted ads, heck, ads had been minimal and only appear while I use apps.
Everyone knows your location
Submitted 3 months ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/
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asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Google play services betrays you.
Use grapheneos.org and it sandboxes Google play for you, but ironically requires a Google Pixel phone.
quokka1@mastodon.au 3 months ago
@ParetoOptimalDev @asunaspersonalasst That's the thing that put me off. I brain couldn't reconcile the idea of de-Googling by buying something from Google.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
Took delivery of a Pixel 9 last Thursday after 16 years of iPhones. Within an hour of delivery I had it on Graphene and after a few days of VEEEEERY steep learning curve I’m really enjoying using it.
I have absolutely no idea how any of the sandboxing stuff works, and could stand to have fewer notifications warning me what the system is doing, but overall it’s pretty straightforward.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
It is about ads in apps and how they track you.
Zak@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Preferring websites to apps when possible makes this approach more effective. If you use apps with ads in them, they will likely get sensitive information as described in the article.
System wide ad blocking helps more. Private DNS is the easiest way; Mullvad provides a free option.
rimu@piefed.social 3 months ago
No.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 months ago
Are you, being purposely misleading?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
(through ads)
max_dryzen@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Can’t object to what you (normally) can’t see.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 months ago
And I just remembered I’m not running NextDNS on this phone.
I wonder if Android is as lax as iOS on the cross-app sharing.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I keep my phone in a Faraday bag because of intrusions like this.
tomyhaw@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The Facebook tracking when not installed on the iphone is strange as I thought only android is pre installed in the background not iOS.
rimu@piefed.social 3 months ago
This post prompted me to finish setting up my Pi-Hole.
rimu@piefed.social 3 months ago
I have zero social media apps or games on my phone but my pihole is still getting a hell of a workout. This is nuts.
Cyber@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Also consider outside your home too - either permantly VPNing back through your home network, or (ie for Android) Tracker Control, which will block most ad / sdk / geo trackers that it knows about.
Wahots@pawb.social 3 months ago
I should set one up. Is it a huge pain in the ass?
rimu@piefed.social 3 months ago
The Pi-Hole itself is very straightforward if you're cool with using docker - the example docker-compose.yaml on Docker Hub just worked for me. But getting your devices to use the Pi-Hole instead of their usual DNS server can be harder than it should be.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I had to put my pihole on a brake for a while. I had it installed on a raspberry pi 3 and it destroyed 2 SD cards in a month. Now it just runs piVPN and all is well.
Gonna reinstall next time I get a newer raspberry.
rimu@piefed.social 3 months ago
Turn off all the logging
r0ertel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Check out the overlay filesystem. I’m using it for one pi and have had the same SD card for years. I don’t know if it’ll work for pinole, but may get you thinking in a new direction.
raldone01@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I just learned that san disk has a 10 year warranty. Today I made a claim for a 5 year old sdcard. Maybe worth a shot.