Give permission. Don't give permission. They know where you are anyway
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Is there any straightforward way of stopping this besides dropping off the grid?
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it's been known for a long time that there is enough identifiable information in a "normal" person's internet usage to identify exactly who and where you are and what you are likely doing just from metadata analysis and public domain information
question is, how is this being abused
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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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...where are chains allowed to abuse security camera footage for ad tracking?
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Does this happen to users in the EU? Itβs highly illegal to gather data without consent here obviously. Even processing other data to derive location means processing data for purpose thatβs different from one that was consented to (if they tried to get consent at all). There are big companies implicated here so itβd be easy to fine them into submission in jurisdictions that allow it.
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The sample data shared in the article includes
"c": "ES", // Country code,ES is usually used for Spain, so it looks like these tests were run from within the EU.
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I forgot I'm in a minority of people running a properly secure degoogled ROM.
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Bunnings in Australia until very recently and u have basically 0 protections in the states.
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Ah, thereβs also this in json:
"uc": "1", // User consent for tracking = True; OK what ?!My guess is that developers are pretending to got user consent to get more money from the ads.
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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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Wonder how the app sent geolocation with Location Services disabled.
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So use a trustworthy middleman? Surely you can find someone more trustworthy than advertising companies?
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I agree it's a powerful tool! I was specifically responding to "problem solved" in the previous comment. My reply was in no way meant as a general review of VPNs.
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True, it's storing the IP address that is the issue.
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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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Storing it and associating it with all the other identifying information collected.
