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You're not anonymous. Cellphone advertising IDs are being sold to unmask you (archive.is)
posted 4 years ago by Booker 4 years ago by Booker +51 / -0
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– Booker [S] 26 points 4 years ago +26 / -0

It's been "common knowledge" that your right to privacy is long gone, but here's the smoking gun that everyone needs to be aggressively protective over their online privacy, block ads, use de-googled ROMs, and switch to Pinephone technologies as soon as they are mature enough to adopt.

Occasionally Vice does good journalism. I was starting to forget what that looked like, but here we are.

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– Devidose 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0

Occasionally Vice does good journalism. I was starting to forget what that looked like, but here we are.

Something something broken, on fire, radioactive, asbestos laced clocks are right once a da-💥

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– ThatYellowBastard 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

So I'm curious, as far as privacy devices are concerned, what's available out there?

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– Sundog_ 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Librephone

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– ThatYellowBastard 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

How's pinephone?

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– Booker [S] 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

From what I've seen, not ready for prime time.

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– Piroko 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

My phone is an LG Wine.

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– Booker [S] 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Just because it's a flip phone doesn't mean you're immune to data collection through your browser.

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– Piroko 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

There's no browser.

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– Booker [S] 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Ah. I'm thinking of later models.

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