Feb. 21, 2023, 8:46 p.m. | /u/edshire

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I've just noticed that switching on/off airplane mode on my smartphone is changing the last digits of the IP address, for example from \*.\*.88.216 to \*.\*.88.86. I was wondering if this is enough to prevent cross-site tracking.

I have an degoogled android phone (grapheneOS), and have installed two profiles on it. In one of them, I only use open source apps from f-droid store. In the second profile I have apps from google play store that do not need google …

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