Funny enough a vpn would have hid the service provider, but would have not solved this issue — as some influencers are advertising. It’s the gps data that makes

Funny enough a vpn would have hid the service provider, but would have not solved this issue — as some influencers are advertising. It’s the gps data that makes these apps useful (find someone near) that was uses apparently to identify users. Additionally, with device ID you could probably get other datasets that contain email name etc. That seems like a better route to go than the GPS tracks. But, maybe just having the app wasn’t invasive enough.