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Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games
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Related: https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/
Unity games on mobile send your location to Unity servers every couple seconds through the Unity ad network.
Things you can do:
I just deny most mobile games the network permission, though obviously this doesn't work if you actually need any internet access (and I don't think all devices give you control over that permission)
I didn't see that permission when I looked for it
Probably custom ROM only
Yeah, I have the option on graphene