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I don't want to be a contrairian, but your cellphone carrier does this non stop. Cloudflare is not a good company, but this is the least of your problems.
You have entirely misunderstood this exploit.
How so? Asking out of curiosity.
I'm not trying to wear a tinfoil hat, but Snowden clearly revealed that the government is easily able to purchase cellphone location data based on GPS and tower data more easily than they can go through the FISA courts.
Your cellphone provider very likely already sells this data.
I know mine does, because I attended a webinar of a buying company where they explicitly mentioned this.
Ah, thought you meant though metadata. Like a end user snooping through some obscure meta data method (even after cleaning) let's you triangulate something.