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Also, many mobile users name their device their whole name, effectively deanonymizing all their app usage for the massive ecosystem of marketing companies out there. Having worked in the mobile marketing industry I was shocked at how many people were doing this and probably had no idea this was the case.


Is that an iPhone thing?

I know it's not possible to set the hostname of your phone on most android phones but it's unique.

Of course with Android making build versions and etc. Available to devs and in the case of chrome to your user agent. You're pretty much identifible.


Oh, but it is possible. It's buried in the networking settings but there's a phone name option which is used for just about everything.

Although on my LG devices it defaults to the series name, for example G3 for an LG G3.




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