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

  • ComradeMiao@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 days ago

    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
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      10 days 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.

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      10 days ago

      If route all data through VPN and drop the unwanted packages in the firewall at home, you achieve this. But apple is a bitch and ignore VPN (and even DNS) for own domains.