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Can you be tracked for marketing purposes on a "dumb-phone"? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by unicornBro@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 days ago

The data-point that someone is using a dumbphone or actively trying to minimise/restrict profiling is a very important and valuable profiling data-point itself.