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Right, and looking at Adsquare partners, you find apps such as wetter.com or The Weather Channel. So weather apps just track the real time position of their us
by tilolebo 7y ago
Right, and looking at Adsquare partners, you find apps such as wetter.com or The Weather Channel.
So weather apps just track the real time position of their users and resell it to adsquare? I'm really dumbfounded, but this appears to be true:
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/612719/the-weather-channel-app-has-been-accused-of-tracking-users-and-then-selling/ https://www.technologyreview.com/f/612719/the-weather-channe...
- tastroder 7y agoNot that point 10, their list of tracking stuff, wasn't long enough to worry about already but I fail to find real time geo data mentioned in here: https://www.wetter.com/datenschutz/adsb/ https://www.wetter.com/datenschutz/adsb/ Might be that one of those third parties infers it via Geo-IP (let's hope so).
- tilolebo 7y agoRight, it seems they only use tracking to display ads for their app/website. But then I wonder why they would be listed as Adsquare partner for their proximity targeting technology? Geo-IP can be used in some cases (weather, events), but is in other cases not precise enough for real proximity targeting. Also, strangely, all Adsquare listed proximity targeting partners are apps or companies that have direct access to their users GPS position.