On: Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking

[high_5]

It's ridiculous we're trying to prevent three letter agencies to track us directly, but we then install all sorts of apps that could get the same information via apps from some 3rd party shell companies set up or funded by those agencies.

[cle → high_5]

Perhaps it's not the tracking itself that we care about, but control over when it occurs and by whom.

[ballenf → cle]

Control over it?

Good luck figuring out which apps track you much less controlling when.

The trackers can change or be enabled programmatically and silently.

And VPN is getting more and more worthless. I have to turn it off for more and more apps to function at all.

[cle → ballenf]

I'd argue that it's the feeling of control that most people want, not necessarily the control itself. Perhaps a kind of "reactance".