An amazing bit of digital detective work here. Seems like Linux mobile is your only off ramp from being exhaustively tracked
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
Even with Linux it wouldn’t be that safe, if apps were doing this crap.
We just have to stop using the internet at this point
You’d want to be using only Linux apps that weren’t recording and reporting everything. Much easier to get in Linux than Apple/android
You know the towers log data too, right? And that websites themselves can track you regardless of what OS you use, right?
Privacy is good, but stop with this “Linux is a magic weapon” BS.
Separate dongle for internet using a hotspot can help. No system is perfect but Linux phone is an excellent first step
You miss my meaning. All the servers that your info passes through, all the cell towers, etc, can and in many cases do track you(even as just routine loggings). Thinking that running anything makes you more secure while connecting to a giant public network is naive.
Surprising that this data never heard gets leaked. It’s always my social security number
It’s in a perpetual state of leakage in a sence that it’s a trade item that gets sold between different companies. You can’t leak that, really.
No hacker group ever got their hands on this data?
Every hacker group or indeed a random guy, can get and routinely gets this data for very cheap. It’s not news because its the norm.
Is there any straightforward way of stopping this besides dropping off the grid?
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.
Use a custom DNS and/or hosts file. You can cut them off the grid by blocking data upload to SSP. Don’t install many apps, for games that can be played offline, play them offline. EDIT: AdGuard DNS doesn’t block the 1st URL (o.isx…) in the page. 2nd URL is blocked.
