I had been logged on my Facebook on the second computer. I literally have a Chromebook whose key purpose is for me to log on to Facebook in guest mode. (Part of my experiment in tracing these things). That computer has none of my accounts logged in. None. https://twitter.com/soupkitchen/status/1263623319946842113 …
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I know! I research this stuff for a living. I’m asking a very specific question.https://twitter.com/amb567/status/1263638538186350593 …
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Facebook aside, Twitter should give every woman an extra 240 characters per tweet to say I research all this for a living and I know all the basic obvious stuff. This makes Twitter unusable—my mentions get overwhelmed by kindergarten level “explaining”. https://twitter.com/topquark/status/126364086562236416 …https://twitter.com/topquark/status/1263640865622364161 …
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The most likely explanation is tracking by IP/Wifi. The speed with which it happened suggests some sort of automatic retargeting. I would like to know if this is something they disclose somewhere, or if this is known to advertisers or others? That’s my core question.
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There are multiple intermediate data onboarding companies whose bread & butter is building records based solely on IP. 6 yrs ago got a pitch from one that's mapped every consumer-ISP IP address to a physical address in the real world, and all device IDs behind that IP 1/
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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so about incognito—you’re still being tracked by a multitude of ways. it’s (i would dare to say) next to useless, especially considering it’s in the chrome browserhttps://www.hotspotshield.com/resources/can-ip-addresses-be-tracked-in-incognito-mode/ …
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separate devices notwithstanding, all it might take is one login using one of your accounts on another device, or using the same devices close together. just once!!!
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Incognito mode does not mask your IP
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Wait...why the fvck not?
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omg the WiFi, I TOTALLY forgot about that
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It was a very very specific conversation, and I'm actually not in the market for coffee machines. And it was instant. Looked up, put phone down, turned on other machine, saw ad for other brand