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Cake day: December 16th, 2023

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  • If you use android google grabs your GPS data regardless, you have to root and disable it.

    Apple does the same thing but they didn’t have their pants occupied by third-party network’s fingers like google did until the pixel came out.

    Google maps is basically a beacon for AdMob to target you nearly perfectly.

    Also using “fine location” in any app grabs the nearby wifi list and sends it to Google/apple if it’s not cached.

    Also most ad providers these days have made deals with major networks that let them tell what tower your IMEI pinged off of.

    It’s why google tried to push android/ad IDs, way less info for the networks to advertise over, and it also put the tracking in their hands instead.



  • I used to work for a mobile advertiser, and we installed hella bloatware on phones.

    This idea was floated a couple times but was deemed not very effective cause you’d have to store and process hours and hours of audio data that didn’t tell us much more than just having a week or so of GPS data, your Facebook profile, and your phone IMEI.

    It’s pretty easy to see if you’re near a Popeyes and what other IMEIs are connecting to the same tower, extrapolate that to you being near your wife and you and your wife thinking about shit on the Popeyes menu.

    Boom targeted ad/video for fried chicken.

    The rest is general tech paranoia leading to Apophenia.

    There’s no microphones or cameras, it’s just the already gigantic mountain of data anyone who uses a smartphone is constantly broadcasting getting ground through the big data machine that has been the pillar of all tech since the last recession.










  • You really gotta hope those 5-10% LLM interpretive miss rares don’t hit your particular case.

    Also if it fucks up, the doctor is still liable for malpractice right? Or do they get to kick that ball down into the abyss of trying to get LLM companies to take responsibility for their products.