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Google-Amazon connection? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] MD756@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] MD756@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

cautiously lifts tinfoil hat off head

[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 7 months ago

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.

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