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by surround 108 days ago
> What You Can Do To Protect Yourself

> 1. Disable your mobile advertising ID

> 2. Review apps you’ve granted location permissions to.

I'm surprised they missed the most important step, which is blocking the advertisers from collecting your data in the first place. This is easily done in the browser with uBlock Origin and system-wide with DNS filtering.

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How do you do the system wide DNS filtering?
pihole is one way, though it's tricky to do it right