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
I don’t like this, but how can I explain to a family member that this is more than just hand-wavy bad and instead give a practical reason that would cause them to care?
From what I read, this sounds like a nothing burger