agreed, however there are duplicates in that list + same app for ios / android.
if I’m not mistaking I did a simple unique count on it (or catch the 2000 number from 404media post)
I think they are pretty clear if you read the documentation. Accessing to the exact value of these always need some privacy-related privilege on ios and android.
Without those privilege, all you can get is an approximate.
This technique doesn't work anymore on android because you can no longer add certificates to the system store and apps are free to choose to accept the user store CAs or not. That was changed in Android 7. For "security" they say. Security of Googles business model I'm sure.
wow @apokryptein thanks for posting my article here... I'm shocked it's #1 rn.
if anyone has any questions regarding the post - I'm here to answer & talk!
I don’t know the answer to this, which is why I didn’t mention it in the post.
However, I could speculate that these data-broker companies scrape leaked [hacked and stolen] data from various panels and then match records on their end.
kinda OSINT for bad reasons.
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