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As long as they store your ip in their logs, they know where you have been.
by GrumpyNl 7y ago
As long as they store your ip in their logs, they know where you have been.
- akamoonknight 7y agoWould it possible to somehow run a local proxy or tor-like program that hides your IP address from internal programs and only provides localhost or some such. And then on the other end I suppose you'd have to connect through some sort of tor node to connect to their actual servers too. Poorly thought out question, but I've never really thought of something like a reverse tor that hides things from your own personal applications.
- HankB99 7y agoThat would be a VPN, no?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 7y agoIf the app doesn't need internet than blocks its access to the network. If it needs access use a VPN. If you're trying to evade cross device fingerprinting then I can get you some info. If you're trying to evade state sponsored attackers then you're probably already hosed.
- inerte 7y agoOh, there's way more. Your pictures have metadata. Your pictures have actual landmarks. They have faces of people that have FB location tracking on. The inverse is also true, pictures from other people with you on them. They can infer from instrumentation if you're sat down, time of day (so probably at home). Download and upload speeds, you're probably on wifi. They buy and sell and correlate data with other companies and advertisers. There's dozens of ways to know where people are. Location tracking on the phone is real time and reliable, but they likely have enough data to ballpark the whereabouts of everyone on Earth!