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by tveita 524 days ago
"a significant amount of this geolocation dataset appears to be inferred by IP address to geolocation lookups, meaning the vendor or their source is deriving the user's geolocation by checking their IP address rather than by using GNSS [Global Navigation Satellite System]/GPS data. That would suggest that the data is not being sourced entirely from a location data SDK."

Probably it would use the location if the permission was enabled, otherwise fall back to IP geolocation

Real-time bidding is a privacy nightmare - basically spraying your actions in real-time to every ad provider, with a pinky promise that they won't abuse it.

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Pinky promises from scoundrels. Pretty much with that group asking the pinky promise is to provoke abuse of it.