interesting to find out there are self-hostable location tracking solutions as replacement for google location services and the like!

id be interested to know how i might get started with implementing something like that

By writing your own proxy, and also making sure the URL doesn't say https (you can change it back to https in the proxy you write)

i thought about including packet captures and some analysis on that, but ran out of steam. you're right that it would have made a more interesting post. maybe ill amend it at some point :)

there were other peculiarities i noticed in testing, like udp trackers not working through the socks proxy even after fixing the listening port problem. id like to revisit the topic at some point to see if that can be fixed as well.