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Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers (networks.imdea.org)
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[โ€“] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Does pihole help with this sort of tracking? I've never bothered setting it up because I thought it was just for adblocking and I already use ublock, but if it has other uses I might look into it

[โ€“] SrMono@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Rethink/Adguard/pihole all interfere with the DNS lookup. Depending on the quality of your blocklist, the servers they try to send the data too will simply not be reachable.