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    9 months ago

    Your ad blocker doesn’t block location data if your mobile carrier is selling it to these brokers (and they almost certainly are).

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      9 months ago

      It’s why there’s been such an effort to move to apps instead of webpages that can do the same thing. More data collection and notifications.

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        9 months ago

        That’s been the trend for more than a decade though. Some companies are more militant about it than others.