Strange thing happening. Was in Valencia, Spain the last couple days, wife went with some friends to a wine tasting, I bailed, just kind of wandered around the city. At one point, I stopped into a running shop to check out some “barefoot” style shoes. I have wide feet, get squeezed by regular running shoes.

Was in there for maybe two minutes, checked out a pair of Xero shoes, picked it up for five seconds, put it down, walked out.

Last two days, been getting spam email advertising Xero shoes.

Had not mentioned this to anyone, either.

Fucking cell phone is tracking what stores/shoes I’m looking at apparently.

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Word. Everything is listening and tracking and shilling. Should be like, pssst…. There’s a great little cafe around the corner a buddy of yours in your web of trust hearted a few weeks ago. Wanna check it out? Even that only if I asked.

They track everything: what you say, what you browse and search for, the places you visit,... It's 360 degrees surveillance!

Wonder if it picked up any verbal mention of Xero? I don't even talk about the most sensitive of topics at home without turning off all devices. Sad world we're living in

never mentioned it to anyone

God and Google know your every move.

Xero's are great if it's any consolation 🤙

Haha

It’s true, Xero shoes are awesome. Their soles last, but I find the stitching on the sides to be the weak point. Still, a big fan of the product. And I am in no way connected to the company.

Do you want help ensuring this can never happen again?

Would you be willing to switch devices if necessary?

Do you have any solutions to propose?

I have a Portuguese phone in my wife’s name I take around here. I often keep the US phone in another room usually when I’m at home. Think it’s better to have a phone that tracks you when you do normie things and one not linked to you if you want privacy.

have a device in my wife’s name that I take around sometimes but mostly just keep it away from me when I’m talking about anything sensitive.