Yikes, the creepy online ads that follow your offline real world activities finally caught up to me after successfully evading this for 5 years. It appears to be a Bluetooth information leak exploited by the Twitter app to display an Apple App Store ad.
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It’s an App Store ad for GrubHub, shown while visiting a restaurant where a GrubHub van was picking up food. I’ve never used GrubHub and never seen an ad from them or Apple ever before. I wonder if this is Twitter exploring a Bluetooth info leak or if Apple is in cahoots.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic
What makes you think it's a Bluetooth info leak ? Not just your GPS loc taken while it's disabled ? As a dev i always thought "why not make an app that turns it on, get the location, and turn it off again?". In short, i don't trust mobiles i guess...
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I trust that Apple respects disabling hardware communication settings like Bluetooth. This reduces the attack surface to cellular and Bluetooth (WiFi was disabled) or something outside of iOS like a credit card swipe or (unlikely) facial recognition.
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