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gregmcc

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#288952 3-Aug-2021 09:00
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So a few days ago we had a car trip with my parents, about 1 hours drive, amongst conservation they talked about HelloFresh, the meals, the vouchers to give to another person. Phone was in the car not been actively used, but turned on.

 

I have never done any searching on my phone for this or similar services.

 

So today when I go to Youtube, this comes up as the first Ad.

 

 

 

 

This is totally different to what I usually watch on youtube, why was this ad dished up.....phone must have been listening?

 

Should I now start wearing the tinfoil hat?

 

 

 

 


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CYaBro:

 

Happens with iPhones too sorry. :)

 

Many examples of it happening to myself and my wife and we both have iPhones.

 

EG: was at a friends place one day and they had a dart board up and the kids were playing darts and talking about it.
I didn't use my phone while there except had it in my pocket.
That night back at home I started seeing ads for Darts and other things related to playing darts in my Facebook feed.
I've never searched for anything like that in the past.

 

 

Yes, but you have greater ability to minimise the snooping on iPhone than you do on android.

 

The key difference is that iPhone allows you to block apps tracking you across third party apps, you can't do this on android.

 

And with the upcoming iOS15, iPhone will introduce the equivalent of always on VPN privacy for Safari.

 

(and I think the main culprit above was not iPhone, but the app beginning with F and ending in K).


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