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Blaze@quokk.au to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 4 days ago

Your Samsung Weather App Is a Fingerprint

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Your Samsung Weather App Is a Fingerprint

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Blaze@quokk.au to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 4 days ago
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How a pre-installed system app turns saved locations into a persistent cross-session tracking identifier Samsung devices ship with a weather application that issues periodic HTTP requests to The Weather Company's API (api.weather.com) at fixed intervals. Each request includes a placeid parameter - a 64-character hexadecimal string, consistent with
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    4 days ago

    From what I read, this sounds like a nothing burger

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