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Wouldn’t things like iCloud Private Relay and other VPN-ish things throw a wrench into IP-geo-based tracking? Seems like it’d make the targeting so broad as to
by cosmic_cheese 1y ago
Wouldn’t things like iCloud Private Relay and other VPN-ish things throw a wrench into IP-geo-based tracking? Seems like it’d make the targeting so broad as to be useless.
- lucasban 1y agoConveniently for them, iCloud private relay only really impacts browser usage, third party apps are only impacted when using unencrypted connections, which is unlikely.
- legitster 1y agoI don't know a lot about iCloud in particular, but in general there are not enough active VPN users to make a noticeable difference in tracking. By its nature ad tracking does not have to be super accurate in the aggregate to beat a wild guess.
- v5v3 1y agoIf you look at app download charts, the main VPN companies dominate. So I suspect there are sufficient active users.
- ztetranz 1y agoAs an aside, we just spent a couple of weeks camping in our RV with a cellular router connected to a VPN at home. Now that we're back home, Google maps (on a non-GPS equipped device) and Roku still think we're at the campground several states away. I guess my GPS equipped tablet reported the new location of our home IP address. On past experience, it takes about a week to reset.
- Gigachad 1y agoiCloud Private Relay has always kept the IP in the same city for me.
- mediumsmart 1y agoMine is also in a city 146 kilometers away.
- v5v3 1y agoVPN does. If I change to for example Hong Kong, all Spotify, YouTube etc are them for hk/Chinese products and spoken in Mandarin/Cantonese. I change country daily, it's good fun.