Beyond that, they can triangulate using both WiFi and cellular towers.
Removal of battery would in theory prevent this, except AFAIK (very exhausted right now so grain of salt without more extensive research) even cheap phones have ways to track location data from a secondary low power source.
Have you ever turned your phone off, talked about something and later that day you got served ads relevant to a conversation you had while your phone was off?
I am fairly certain today's burners at a minimum are traceable. Take the Nokia 2760 for example: a cheap prepayable phone ($20), and it has an SoC that has GPS (https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_us/nokia-2760-flip/specs?sku=GPNKN139DCGBB).
Beyond that, they can triangulate using both WiFi and cellular towers.
Removal of battery would in theory prevent this, except AFAIK (very exhausted right now so grain of salt without more extensive research) even cheap phones have ways to track location data from a secondary low power source.
Have you ever turned your phone off, talked about something and later that day you got served ads relevant to a conversation you had while your phone was off?
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