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Google, Android, and the death of privacy (2/2) 

@salameleon@snouts.online You can, but it’s not as easy to do as it used to be. One simple(ish) way is to convince browsers that you live in the EU, since GDPR mandates very specific data practices and bans certain tracking patterns.

But outside of relying on the side effects of foreign law, you basically need a full anonymizer stack at this point (randomized IP, header scrubbing, denial of tracking pixels, etc). Which isn’t easy on a smartphone.

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