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.
@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.
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.
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.
It is about ads in apps and how they track you.
Google play services betrays you.
Use https://grapheneos.org/ and it sandboxes Google play for you, but ironically requires a Google Pixel phone.
@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.
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.
No.
The article is about your location being tracked, not about ads
(through ads)