Okay so today I opened a link to buy a screen for my Raspberry pi on my phone(Chrome browser) and was simultaneously using FB on my Laptop in mozilla.

And that very moment I had ads on FB to but that screen.

Now I know it's nothing new, but at the moment of realization it just felt so creepy.

Privacy literally doesn't exist anymore!

What can we do?

Wait till you have Google Home and you talk about something not in a command and then same day notice ads for the item you mentioned... says it's not listening but I don't believe it.

@Vip3rDev but wouldn't the same reasoning apply to Androids? They also have a microphone and would be able to always listen. But I never got an ad due to something I said near my phone

@pain They maybe dont use it for advertisememt... But I am 100% sure they Record it too...

@Vip3rDev Yeah IKR.. Google is the most sneaky company i've ever seen... Microsoft's kinect was trashed for similar reasons too

Do you at least have DNT enabled?

@tiberius1900 Sorry but what's DNT? 😅

@TomRiddle
Do Not Track. Every browser has it. It basically tells the website "Hey, don't track me".

Now, the website can totally ignore your request, but if you don't use it, you have no right complain imo.

@tiberius1900 Well i do have this extension in my PC browser to block trackers. Didn't knew about a built in feature, lemme check my phone

@tiberius1900 Ok so I checked it, it basically just sends a request to sites to not track. But it still depends on them how they respond.
Most websites will not show you personalised ads but will still fetch your data :/

@TomRiddle go watch the movie Snowden ;)

@Vip3rDev they say Messenger does that...

@TomRiddle Haha, so because you gave one encounter like this, privacy suddenly doesn't exist anymore?

@pawankumar2901 That movie is awesome and creepy as fuck haha

@linuxxx Nope, it isn't that it was something new to me. I myself track user engagement on the apps i make. It was just in that moment I had this feeling. And the worst part is, it is so weaved in our daily lives that most ofbthe time we don't even realise it(singularity theories aside 😝)

@andersmmg probably. I don't doubt it.

I mean, if I was them I would want as much data as possible too...

To be able to connect the dots of a much larger picture thanks to billions of data points.. you can glean insights into topics and find correlations only the best minds in humanity could ever potentially comprehend on their own.

Or, you get hackathons...

"For better control of your privacy our devs were up all night putting together something marvelous, behold the new TDP metric."

"Cool, mine says 16, what does that mean?"

"We took our facial recognition technology and used it to scrape the net with your skin colour parameters and 6 degrees of Kevin bacon your social web and now you can know your Total Dick Pics online available for all to see; lucky you apparently it only found 16!"

@TomRiddle Ah fair enough, well if you use Google services for tracking user engagement and I'm using one of your apps, sorry man, not getting anything from me ;P

@linuxxx I dont think u r using one of mine. Till now i have only developed for specific clients for sideloading. 😬 (still ongoing my bachelors so.. )

N i use MS' App Center and Application insights. Haven't tried Google Analytics yet!