Oddbean new post about login | logout Disturbing https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/
I agree about all the tracking being bad. What I find itritating is that the law referenced here only protects a special class of government employees, as if everyone else should just get fucked. Data brokers should get fucked and this law should apply to everyone. nostr:nevent1qqsthqk8yxmaru665mvvcm53fp4axa4szgxf7jkjrdaqlp03jzz9zzqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczyqduwzspfzelx9k6x0lrez0j8cl8rtz0lxvqylk8z2ustnfy76jpzqcyqqqqqqg0mz4g6
"Google and Apple can’t keep pretending like the MAIDs being broadcast into the bidstream from hundreds of millions of American devices aren’t making most people trivially trackable. "'The privacy risks here will remain until Apple and Google permanently turn off their mobile advertising ID schemes and admit to the American public that this is the technology that has been supporting the global data broker ecosystem'" Do you run nostr:nprofile1qqs9g69ua6m5ec6ukstnmnyewj7a4j0gjjn5hu75f7w23d64gczunmgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eeks6t5vehhycm99ehkuegprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezucm0d9hxvatwvshxzursz8gjrz yet? nostr:nevent1qqsthqk8yxmaru665mvvcm53fp4axa4szgxf7jkjrdaqlp03jzz9zzqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsph3c2q9yt8uckmgelu0yf7glruudvfluesqn7cuftjpwdynm2gygrqsqqqqqp79s0lq
Not an issue if you use a reputable mobile OS. Extract from grapheneOS FAQ: The advertising ID is a Google Play services feature not included in the baseline Android API, so it isn't an API included in GrapheneOS. The advertising ID is unique to each profile.