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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location(www.wired.com)

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Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world
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Short of deleting the offending apps and not using them, how can you protect yourself from the data collection of the app?

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Orbital@infosec.pub
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Protective DNS, when set up with a DNS provider that blocks known ad / tracking domains, would help with that. NextDNS, Control-D, and Mullvad all offer this service, for example.

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sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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Mullvad VPN is best one stop shop to get started but the process is so much more than getting a VPN.

A lot of ia behavioural though, hygiene

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/home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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Protonvpn also blocks ads, trackers, malware. With some of my apps needing google play services, I get trackers block constantly on my grapheneos phone.

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Scolding7300@lemmy.world
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What others said and give permissions on a “need to know basis”

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