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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day (www.404media.co)

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Jesus fucking Christ. Time to delete the two games I’ve ever downloaded. Dunno if that even helps at this point.

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 41 points 11 months ago (1 child)

It's not specific to games, it's all apps that have ads

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 17 points 11 months ago

I should have just went back to the flip phone like ten years ago.

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[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months ago

I switched to /e/ a while ago, they have a feature called advanced privacy. commercial Lemmy clients like Connect and Raccoon have trackers embedded and are blocked automagically. ^I use Jerboa btw^

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[–] limerod@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago

You can instead use apps which block trackers. I can recommend 3.

Netguard with tracker filters enabled, PersonalDNS filter – a fire and forget DNS filter app, or Adguard android app from Adguard website.

The 1st one needs payment to access some pro features but can also block internet connection to all your apps.

The 2nd one is a simple DNS blocker which can have millions of rules and won't choke under the load.

The last one is not Foss or available on fdroid like the 1st two are, but is much more powerful than the 1st two combined.

Pick your tools and limit information now.

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