Do mobile apps have cookies?

km1500

"If using the companies app rather than the website via a browser, and you denied location in the apps Permissions, would the effect be dependent on whether the app was a true standalone, or one that sat on top of the company website?"

This makes no sense.

For ANY APP on your phone (Chrome or anything else) you can deny access to the Android location function in the settings for that app (or indeed just switch location off on your phone so no app can use it)

If you deny, then the app will not be able to access location data.

Separate to that, your phone connects to a tower near you and your assigned IP address is available to anyone - which is not of course 'location' but is location in the sense that the IP address will be a UK one.

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km1500 said:

Separate to that, your phone connects to a tower near you and your assigned IP address is available to anyone - which is not of course 'location' but is location in the sense that the IP address will be a UK one.

Unless your phone is connected to Wifi at home in which case the IP address used will be tied to your home address.

goodValue

debitcardmayhem said:

Yes everywhere you go on the internet the web presence uses Internet Protocol , and they have an IP address and you have an IP address which they need to talk to you. Your IP address is the address of your router which is assigned by your ISP.

Oh also moneysavinexpert.com has an IP address of 104.16.33.84 and 2606:4700::6811:2e53(for TCP/IP v6 as opposed to v4 which the first one is).

Previous posts seem to make a distinction between apps that used the companies website, and those that were standalone.
But in terms of Location, there is no effective difference? No matter what device or app/browser, your country of use is known because this is in the IP address.
Giving Location permission just allows your location within the country to be determined?

goodValue

debitcardmayhem said:

If you want to learn more one example is https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/network-layer/internet-protocol/

Thanks, this site looks as though it will be very useful in the future.

goodValue

I think you probably need to take a step back and explain what you are trying to achieve before drilling down to the way networks work and then you will get some better advice.

Start by answering these questions

1. What do I want to protect?

I feel that I'm not yet at a stage where I can answer these questions.
From national news, I know that there are threats such as:
viruses
malware
botnets
multinational companies databases being hacked
personal data being used to compromise bank accounts

plus others I cannot remember off the top of my head.

So, I want to protect anything that can be compromised.
And yet I don't know what all the threats are.
Also, I don't know what actions I do on the computer could be liable for exploitation.
Until I have a greater understanding of these last two, I wouldn't be able to start answering the other questions you posed.

So, until I know better, I have adopted the policy of being as rigorous as possible with any actions that may have security or privacy implications.