I keep my phone in a Faraday bag because of intrusions like this.
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.
Can’t object to what you (normally) can’t see.
This post prompted me to finish setting up my Pi-Hole.
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 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.
The Facebook tracking when not installed on the iphone is strange as I thought only android is pre installed in the background not iOS.
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.
Google play services betrays you.
Use https://grapheneos.org/ and it sandboxes Google play for you, but ironically requires a Google Pixel phone.
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.
It is about ads in apps and how they track you.
No.
The article is about your location being tracked, not about ads
Are you, being purposely misleading?
