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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by antimius3000 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:57AM (#26100228)
They didn't have 'the phone'. They only had traffic logs and had to find the app that matched a certain traffic pattern. And they did have 'something like ElasticSearch', it's all in the link, and even in this reply.
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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by abluecloud on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:02AM (#26100248)
I'm confused, it says

> We did this by opening the popular apps one-by-one and noting down the time

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Re:Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a p... by Rebelgecko on Thursday February 11, 2021 @06:17PM (#26108831)
It sounds like they did have the phone. Otherwise, Wikipedia is doing some sketchy stuff if they can figure out what apps are on my phone just from my IP address (IMO unlikely)
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