or where people are actually recording wifi networksk, wigle is kept up to date by volunteers

The app has many features, one specifically can decompile and dissect other apps methods, and gives you the ability to disable them. It does lead to crashes, that's why XPL-EX is a cleaner option.

I think you can run a DNS server, and configure Android with a custom DNS server. Not sure about this exact case though.

Yes, that's a given. I totally disagree with google's philosophy of locking down android features once you root, it's totally unwarranted.

Could you elaborate a little further ( maybe not data itself, but its type and so on )? I don't have Spotify, but I am obviously fairly interested in the subject as a whole ( and that business model spread widely ).

Thanks! Giving it a try. I've been using Google's take out to download my Fitbit data already because the app is so shit these days. I wonder what else has these data dumps available.

Going after the politicians is the only fix for surveillance capitalism. The US's only strong privacy law for consumer activity is for video rentals and came about when the disclosure of rental records for judge Bork scared members of Congress into protecting their own privacy. This still applies to modern day streaming services.

Instead of making something illegal, that might be perfectly acceptable for someone else, why don’t take a personal decision to stop using those services altogether?

It’s very tempting to impose our own personal truths to everybody else’s via politics, but that’s a quite close approach to totalitarianism.

> You can actually opt out of this. Vote for politicians that want to regulate this into illegality.

The parliament has more than one politician and the advertising companies pay better. To opt out of it you need to put politicians in jail for conflict of interest and bribes and make campains against big tech (which could lead to your "suicide). Good luck with that.

But then the government couldn't track you anymore with the help of those companies.

There are no such politicians, and even if they were your vote does not matter.

I would never trust a public VPN personally.

I run a b2b infosec company.

I ported my number to a voip provider so I can take any calls I want from home DECT phones or laptops. No need for notifications to follow me around or to carry a pocket distraction machine.

I would not happily give up my smartphone but, speaking for myself I get very few personal calls, and latterly, don’t know the last time I had a work call on my phone.

Because you and almost everyone else agreed to the Terms of Service where you consented to let them stalk you until they can make an accurate enough simulation of you to sell increased chances to change your behavior to the highest bidder.

You can stop at any time. Cancel your cell phone subscription and turn off your phone. It is a perfectly valid choice.

No one took Stallman seriously in the early '00s cuz he looks like a total nerd.

Because no one made it illegal?

And more specifically just use the maintained scripts from HTTP Toolkit.

https://github.com/httptoolkit/frida-interception-and-unpinn...

The difference should be only at the consent level, eg you might see less or more “Accept All” buttons with different design or different ToS linked. I don’t believe there’s a real difference on the code or even SDK level based on geo.

Doesn't California have partially stricter laws than the EU?

I mean, there should be something! Maybe not with this exact list of apps, but the code should be similar to other "how-to-record-traffic" guides.

Does turning off data (mobile+wifi) when not actually using any app help at all (on Android)? Will apps still be able to phone home in the background? Or will they just fill up a huge cache with data and bulk-transfer it the next time the phone is online?

Maybe at least disconnecting from the internet while not using it will make location tracking slightly more difficult?

Is that true though? I know the banks sell my info to third parties.

I love games. Is there no way to safely block their network calls?