#asknostr just bought something online, and my fiance got an ad for it on her phone. Never talked about it, or sent her a text about it. How!!!
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Oh boy
Your phone always listens to you and they use that to market to you
Also, cookies are shared and sold to advertising companies
This is within a 2hr timeframe. Never heard of this brand myself, and she would never look into or buy this item. We were not in the same place until just a moment ago.
google/meta stuff.
Do you use the same wifi? If so, you have the same home IP address.
Yes same wifi. So.. complete noob question.. that is stored somehow and can be utilized that quickly??
Good lesson in upgrading your privacy stack. Some basic tools:
Orbot, Mullvad VPN, or IVPN on your devices
NextDNS
starpage.com instead of Google search
Tor, Ungoogled Chromium, or Brave for browers.
Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, and Facebook Container plugins for your browsers
SimpleX or Signal for your comms
Simple Login for proxy emails
I definitely gotta look into these!!! Thanks 🙏
Yeah every option has trade offs.
I find that Brave Search and Startpage work just fine with Tor browser and Orbot, for what it is worth.
Never heard of starpage. So I clicked on it and I am being told "Content blocked. Please turn of ad blocker." I take that to mean that I am doing it right. 😄
Huh, strange. I can access Startpage regardless of my ad blockers or of I am on Tor. But yes, you are probably doing something right ✌