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Yeah today I opened a Vineyard Vines (clothing company) ad on Instagram and used the little browser thing inside Instagram.
Close the app, open chrome, and search Vineyard Vines and then a similar company. Close the tabs and chrome.
Open Instagram and boom, first ad i see is for the company that I searched. -
Fun fact, even if you log in on one browser, the ad companies know you are even in other browsers where you arnt logged in. (Only same computer though) this gives them the ability to Target your ads to you in any browser, logged in or not on your computer. For an idea of how this works search uniquemachine fingerprint in Google.
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I had an experience that I'm still unable to explain - a work friend and I were discussing an app on her phone( clothing app) . We chatted for some time too but the app name was never mentioned. Mind you I don't use clothing apps. That night while browsing 9gag I notice an ad for that app.
Now I don't know what kind of network they have built, but this was another level. It can be a coincidence or not. I vaguely remember seeing an article where they targeted even your friends accounts + hacks and breaches to do the same thing. -
Different, but also similar:
Now that Apple allows to integrate Safari into Apps that enables user to have all their safari feeling on a website they visit inside an app.
The downside of it: An app could always open this Safari Window invisible to the user and direct to a certain website which will store a cookie in the actual Safari cookie store.
This enables syncing you App data with your browser data.
Don't we all love a sophisticated chat bot?
Recently made an account on Instagram.
Uploaded two pics
Deleted both of them
Now I've -2 posts
This is just sad
Last week I sent a pic of Nestle Crunch chocolate to my friend in Whatsapp. Today he told me that he got an ad in Instagram for Nestle Crunch!! Holy crap!
We were trying to figure out how did it happen because we never discussed about the chocolate other than that image. Then I realized that Whatsapp and Instagram was owned by the same fucking company - Facebook!!!
I've stopped using Facebook, Instagram for a very long time and I have ad blockers on every electronic device I touch. So I never understood the gravity of people losing shit over privacy, until today. This indeed is creepy and it hit me real hard. I'm now reading all rants with "privacy" tags and methods to harden my devices to repel from those buggers.
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facebook
whatsapp
i need privacy
instagram