DeuxChevauxApr 3, 2024

Google-Amazon connection?

https://lemmy.world/post/13855842

Google-Amazon connection? - Lemmy.World

Today I was watching a few YouTube videos about groundwork with horses. First time I did that. Yes, I was logged in. Later today, I hopped on Amazon to track one of my packages. And in my suggestions, there were horse grooming kits, halters and the like, even though I had never before looked for things like these on there. My mail addresses are different on the two places, and so are, of course, my passwords. I am on Linux with Firefox, uBlock etc. So this must be an incredible coincidence, a miracle, mind-reading, or maybe witchcraft? I wonder what I could tweak to make things like this happen less in future. I am thinking of adding a Pi-hole to my router, yet I am no longer so sure, if it would help?

Show threadMD756Apr 3, 2024
I can see the devices you use mattering. Where were you watching the videos? Do you have the Amazon app installed on the same device, or on a device with a microphone? My tin-foil hat theory is that the Amazon app is always listening from your phone, based on similar things happening to my wife.
Show threadhuginnApr 3, 2024

It’s not.

  • Battery consumption would be obvious
  • Network traffic would be obvious
  • That’s not how app lifecycles work on phones: the only thing always ruining is the OS.

    • Source: professional app developer who has also worked for big G

    Show threadMD756
    slowly lifts tinfoil hat off head
    Apr 3, 2024 at 11:35amWeb
    Show threadhuginnApr 3, 2024

    Don’t entirely take it off: ad companies are as malevolent as you think. They’re just not wiretapping you constantly.

    There are plenty of easier ways to spy.