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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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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That’s insane!
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Straightforward tech wise I suppose. Wonder where we neglected to opt out of sharing our card purchase info with the ad providers haha. I’d guess seeing the driver was a coincidence. If I was grub hub I’d just upload my list of served locations.
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You’re right, that is the most likely. I’ll need to dig into this. I did not think credit card companies could sell individualized customer transaction histories. If they do that, it is very disturbing.
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My understanding is ad networks not only know a lot about you but they also know with high probability who your friends and family are. So it’s you and anyone close to you that can feed it data. I’ve heard a lot of the microphone listening worries are really just that.
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