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Is this possible on any modern day phone or tablet? Selfhosting as made me very privacy-consciouss and am concerned about my iphone.

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[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Oh true! What an obvious answer. I could run it to my home adguard via tailscale. What about gps though...

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (8 children)

GPS is kind of a tossup since your cellular provider can just as easily triangulate your position with their towers, and there is no escaping that outside of putting your phone in a faraday cage.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good point. Wish there was a way to have a device that could only access my selfhosted applications then totally block all other tracking. I did the vpn route just now. Thanks for that tip!

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Cell tracking is external to the phone. It's done by the towers - they know signal strength, and by using known tables of that data, cell providers know pretty accurately where your phone is.

To block this you'd need a device that lacks any cellular technology whatsoever. Wifi only.

And that has the same issues, especially with companies like Comcast/Xfiniti using their cable modems to track all the devices around them, even if you don't connect to them.

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