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cyrano @lemmy.dbzer0.com

1w ago

Everyone knows your location

timsh.org Everyone knows your location

How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

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This post prompted me to finish setting up my Pi-Hole.
- 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.
  
  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.
- I should set one up. Is it a huge pain in the ass?
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  Turn off all the logging
  
  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. (Just check with ypur manufacturer.)

Can't object to what you (normally) can't see.

And I just remembered I'm not running NextDNS or PiHole on this phone.
I wonder if Android is as lax as iOS on the cross-app sharing.

I keep my phone in a Faraday bag because of intrusions like this.

The Facebook tracking when not installed on the iphone is strange as I thought only android is pre installed in the background not iOS.

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