Anon Archived Welcome to your sci-fi dystopia: Sonic firewalls to crumble inaudible ad-tracking phone cookies (theregister.co.uk)
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'Available as open source and as an Android app, SoniControl works by interfering with ultrasonic data transfer. ', "It plays its own inaudible sound through a smartphone's speaker system, masking the acoustic cookies so they're not recognized."
'The silent cookie killer also gives users the option to allow certain acoustic beacons to be set. '
'"There is currently no technology on the market that can detect and block acoustic cookies," said Zeppelzauer, senior researcher the Institute of Creative Media Technologies at St. '
'According to TU Braunschweig research published last year, 234 Android applications that use ultrasonic beacons were found in the Google Play Store. '
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