We need many more Luigis (allegedly)

I carry a second phone with nothing on it but pictures taken with my “real” phone and some GPS/Travel apps to look “legit.” Some might think it a bit of a PITA but I bulk edit the EXIF data of photos to say they were taken with the “decoy” phone before transferring them over. Granted, I only cross the border between US/Canada and US/Mexico and turn off and hide my “real” phone before entering the border queue. It has only been an issue once and they took the decoy away for all of 15 minutes while I waited in my truck and then brought it back and said “Thank you for your cooperation, have a nice day” and then I immediately factory reset then wiped it again and installed LineageOS to clear any spyware they might have put on it.

you don’t have to turn your VPN off, they want you to log in

Good luck with that. You’ll get gray hair before you talk to a real person who actually can help you

privacy.resistFingerprinting

There are eleven settings that start with “privacy.resistFingerprinting”. The first one, which only says “privacy.resistFingerprinting” is set to False by default and I still get the colored vertical lines.

I get that too so rapidly lost interest

The port of entry that originally denied you entrance immediately notes that in the system and you are “Flagged” at all other ports of entry.

As I understand it, LineageOS does have Google Play Services built in. The microG version is for if you wish to spoof those services for apps that rely on them if you choose to not use actual google background services (location, play store etc)

You can use a Privacy card with any name you want on it although some small vendors with actual people running the purchase process can read and take issue when the “card” is supposedly issued to a “Mybig Blackdog”

It’d be cool if you could tap into the OBD2 dongle and find what its criteria is that denotes “rapid accelerations” or “hard braking” and them reprogram it to dampen that curve and never report more than maybe 5% less than what would trigger an acceleration or braking flag

Very true, I was focusing more on the story’s driver being “surprised” and “stunned” by the amount of data collected and that all that date didn’t convince an Insurance Company’s algorithm he was a driver worthy of paying them less than his current premium. I expect upwards of 90% of drivers would be stunned as well that they are not as good of a driver as they imagine and that “I’ve never having an accident” doesn’t carry as much weight with the algorithm as they might have hoped.

Kinda like those who choose to be in the Progressive Insurance “Snapshot” program where you install an OBD2 dongle that reports a lot of data about your driving habits back to Progressive in the dim chance you drive so well that they will lower your rates.

That’s what suppressors are for

Maybe I missed it but the article actually does not tell/show you where these secret locations are. A red dot on a map that doesn’t zoom in well enough is kinda useless.

I have no desire to be what seems to be an alpha tester with my traffic and data.