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Marty_Man_X @ Marty_Man_X @lemmy.world
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Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)

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  • This can be as “simple” as your phones being in close proximity to each other for an extended period, and sharing device advertising IDs/other device data via WiFi, Bluetooth. Might be more to it, but it’s a likely factor.

    Devices do this regularly btw, smartphones also scrape for WiFi networks to better geolocate etc.

    • I still like this meme

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  • Yes but it also reopens everything exactly as you left it, meaning you can update and not loose anything mission critical; ymmv ofc but in my personal experience MacOS has the best update experience from mainstream OS