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
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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.
The short answer is yes, absolutely.