Yikes, the creepy online ads that follow your offline real world activities finally caught up to me after successfully evading this for 5 years. It appears to be a Bluetooth information leak exploited by the Twitter app to display an Apple App Store ad.
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Maybe it was my Chase Visa transaction at the counter 5 minutes prior to the ad. Pretty scary as this implies a Twitter ad tech provider correlated my credit card transaction with a GrubHub driver’s smartphone GPS. I’ve never seen a Visa data leak before, and this was realtime.
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My bank sends everything I Buy to google ads. I know this because as a test I bought something in a grocery aisle at random that i never bought before. I saw ads for the product within hours on my phone.
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