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It's kind of cute you think youtube and other google services aren't geolocating you (approximately) by the IP of the ISP you're on at any given time, and your
by walrus01 5y ago
It's kind of cute you think youtube and other google services aren't geolocating you (approximately) by the IP of the ISP you're on at any given time, and your pattern of life analysis using the internet at work vs home vs friends' wifi. And when your traffic shows up as coming from IP blocks belonging to your LTE mobile phone carrier vs a terrestrial ISP.
If they have a data set from a hundred other people whose behavior you can't control, using android phones in a default configuration, in a residential /24 DHCP IP block belonging to some last-mile ISP, where those people do turn on location and GPS services, and you regularly show up with traffic from the same block, you're being correlated with your neighbours.
Additionally lots of other people with fully-default android or ios location/advertising permissions are using other social media apps from the same netblocks that your traffic regularly appears from in a predictable daily wake/sleep pattern (facebook, instagram, twitter, reddit, tiktok, etc).
- est31 5y agoThese correlation methods exist, and indeed reveal a lot about you, but they have precision limits. In rural areas, the ip block might be as large as an entire municipality, or even larger. If you turn on location services, Google knows which house you are in, and even where you are inside that house from the wifi networks you give them.
- jjeaff 5y agoI live in a suburb and my IP frequently locates me all over the place spanning multiple counties and millions of people. So it is only really useful to get region.
- walrus01 5y agoWithin the precision limits of what they'll publicly tell you from ARIN registration data for your ISP's netblocks and other geolocation services like maxmind, yes. But not in terms of what data they actually have access to for peoples' android phones in their homes, with full location services and GPS turned on, in IPs directly adjacent to you in the same last mile service segment. They don't share that.
- nicbou 5y agoThis is probably the worst few words to start a comment with if you're hoping for polite discussion. Anyway, I follow similar practices (and actively monitor my privacy settings), and it's fine for the most part. The ads I get make zero sense. Companies on our side of the ocean also seem to thread more carefully, based on stories I read.
- TomSwirly 5y ago> It's kind of cute Like a lot of people, I stop reading at the first insult, because I know everything after that will be worthless.
- K0balt 5y agoThe insult was unnecessary and pointless, but in this case the info was solid.