So I was reading Quora articles on Google Chrome and my wife was watching youtube videos in Kitchen while cooking. I happen to come across a link saying “8 signs you get, a month before heart attack”. At the same time she gets advertisement in between video she was watching related to heart attack. Until now, we never have searched/discussed or bought anything remotely related to heart attack. Just so our outer ip happens to be same she gets the “heart attack” related advertisement. I was shocked man😳😳😳 Now I’m wondering should I stop using Google Chrome!? #privacy #google Edit: People who are going to ask for TC. No I’ll not post. It is not relevant to post.
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Who cares? TC is all that matters. And Google offers it.
TC GTFO
Lmao
If you don't follow the tradition of the platform nobody will want to help you :p
Bruh!! I have got help without mentioning TC as well.
So you were logged in on your chrome and your wife logged in to her YouTube account. Maybe there is a shared account between you two. Or maybe you two have setup YouTube family accounts. Either way It is pretty easy for google to build a profile about you and target ads for you. Pretty sure you can turn these off in chrome and YouTube.
It was separate account. And not shared as well. I guess since outer ip is same (Connected to same wifi) that’s why. We have seen instagram suggesting exactly same reels to both of us. In same order as well
Lol. Wait till you have the heart attack a week from now! /jk
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This is not really about tracking (since you never searched heart attack) but more about account linking. Of course IP (and other factors such as family plan) is used for targeting.
This happened all of the time with YouTube on my phone, every conversation led to a YouTube recommendation.
TC is very relevant. Because then we can advise if you can afford YT premium or not. So TC or GTFO
I do have YouTube premium. So you GTFO. My wife doesn’t and we haven’t added accounts to family plan.
Lol says OP who has premium but still somehow gets ads. This thread is too austistic for me and I shall GTFO. Have a good day :)
Google can predict what do you want in your dinner. I bought a website domain, and youtube started suggesting me how to start online business. This is too much. I have turned off sync on Chrome and I check Gmail only on phone. If I have to login on Chrome I do it on Chrome guest and immediately log out. For non work related searches I use different profile. I am also exploring brave browser.
Thank you for relevant comment. I tried DuckDuckGo but am not happy with results. Did not fit my use case
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