I’m aware that carrying a phone means that I can be tracked with cell towers and that’s fine.

But is there some sort of tracking that can be done on modern dumb-phones that make relevant ads show up(on spotify/youtube) that are based on where the phone has been?

Thanks I’m a newb

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    23·
    3 days ago

    Even with a dumb phone, they have

    • Your identity, IE real name and address.
    • Location history
    • Contacts (since you’re forced to use SMS)
    • Message history in plain text

    So I don’t doubt that they’re at least aggregating message history and selling data/trends about certain topics to advertisers and anyone who will buy it.

    Plus if they know that your most contacted person is also texting/searching about certain things, they can safely sell that also and present ads to you based on their interests.

    • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      The data-point that someone is using a dumbphone or actively trying to minimise/restrict profiling is a very important and valuable profiling data-point itself.