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What tracking specifically are you referring to? Is it apps tracking location, or browsing history? If it's just location tracking by the carrier, that's done r

• JohnMakin 2y ago
  Pretty much any modern webpage you visit in your phone’s browser is going to fingerprint and identify you to an extremely granular degree. Tons of popular applications farm and sell data to a crazy degree. Yes, one can not use them, but the list of apps that do not do this is vanishingly small and certain ones like facebook or whatsapp are sometimes completely unavoidable. The mobile ecosystem facilitates this in a way that is much harder to avoid on a mobile device than on a laptop, especially not for the non-advanced user. The iphone for instance tracks your location pretty much constantly to give you “helpful” reminders in maps to tell you that you successfully parked at work (which i never told them was my work). Just one example.
  • hiatus 2y ago
    That's a fair point, I hadn't considered the relative ease of opting out of tracking on a PC in contrast with mobile devices.
  • adamomada 2y ago
    The iPhone tracks location but it is stored on the device
  • pulvinar 2y ago
    Check your Contacts page for yourself: you may have entered a work address. (Or Apple might have 'helpfully' added it?) I haven't cared about tracking since removing all ads, either paying for no ads or simply doing without. Life is good now.
    • JohnMakin 2y ago
      No, apple maps definitely attempts to figure it out based on your location patterns. At one point when I was 100% remote it listed the bodega store across the street I visited daily for sodas/supplies as “Work.” It’s done this for every work place I’ve been in since (til i disabled it which isnt intuitive at all)