• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You don’t need home devices to lose your privacy like that. Your phone’s themselves are constantly listening in.

    Was talking to the wife in the car one time about buying a new pair of tennis shoes, and when I got home that evening and watched YouTube videos and such, I was getting so many tennis shoe ads it was actually quite spooky.

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      1 year ago

      Oh definitely, I go to a lot of effort to try and mitigate it (graphene OS, no Facebook, social media, pihole for network wide ad blocking, simplelogin for email aliasing, no smart devices) but there’s always plenty of invasive apps/services even you’re privacy conscious.