An amazing bit of digital detective work here. Seems like Linux mobile is your only off ramp from being exhaustively tracked

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    1 month ago

    I think it’s more: “Don’t use a smartphone”. It’ll send those requests through any internet connection. No matter if it’s a VPN or Tor.

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        1 month ago

        Same, same. But the occasional app refusing to work due to missing Play services, all the Instagram posts everyone except me took notice of, and all the hoops I have to jump through, kind of remind me of that regularly.

    • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 month ago

      Google hardcodes DNS into their hardware appliances…
      So you’d need to block outgoing DNS requests except for your DNS server and god forbid you change location with a smartphone.

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        11 month ago

        I think this is about apps and not the operating system. But yeah, the stock ROMs also phone home to Google. You’d need to patch that. For example like custom ROMs like GrapheneOS do. I don’t see another viable alternative. But that still leaves you with the issues with the apps mentioned in the article.