<![CDATA[Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell.]]>Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell. Penlink's Webloc system turns that data into three years of tracked movement for ICE, the US Army, and dozens of police departments nationwide.

https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/phone-ads-government-surveillance

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/01ab78cb-cd5f-4f9b-8b3f-3c46d2408bab/every-time-an-app-serves-you-an-ad-it-broadcasts-your-location-into-an-ecosystem-that-surveillance-vendors-harvest-and-resell.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:05:36 GMTSat, 18 Apr 2026 04:36:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:46:58 GMT]]>@Hakuso Absolutely. That's why we advocate for self hosting. We'd rather people make their own VPNs but not everyone wants to or can.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115695218581843300/statuses/116451260402600819https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115695218581843300/statuses/116451260402600819Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:46:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell. on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:45:39 GMT]]>@blackoutvpn
Big Tech Terms & Conditions are a scam to bypass laws, you agree to illegal things, and pay for the priviledge of being tracked and profiled for them to sell to literally anyone with a few bucks to spare so they can deanonymize it and go full 1984.]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/cf8182ec-f078-459f-886a-b80ed1660035https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/cf8182ec-f078-459f-886a-b80ed1660035Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:45:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:29:01 GMT]]>@mikebabcock We're for people who can't or don't want to self-host a wireguard VPS. You absolutely shouldn't blindly trust a VPN company including us.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115695218581843300/statuses/116424293822935230https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115695218581843300/statuses/116424293822935230Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:29:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell. on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:24:11 GMT]]>@blackoutvpn ... this is why I use disconnect and pihole. Every time I use a VPN that VPN knows everything about me too.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/mikebabcock/statuses/116424274847747918https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/mikebabcock/statuses/116424274847747918Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:24:11 GMT