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Kay_Kay_Bee t1_j23t2ru wrote

Reply to comment by Bart-MS in Ring Doorbell Cams Hijacked By Assholes To Provide Live Streams Of SWATtings by _m3r1u5_

Anything you do on the internet can be tracked via cookies, stored and then sold to 3rd parties to serve you targeted ads later. It's how a lot of free websites are paid mainly for, you are the product they sell

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Bart-MS t1_j23vp7i wrote

The cookies don't know when I'm on the loo.

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samz22 t1_j243u5e wrote

I hate hunting, I looked up hunting prices in Africa for a leopard on my laptop. Now on my instagram and every news website I go to on any device, my phone, my appletv , all the ads are about hunting. It’s fucking bullshit how even when using different websites, your personal data is shared

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Incorrect-Username- t1_j24jr46 wrote

You can use ad blockers to prevent this kind of thing. They not only block ads, but also the telemetry data that your devices are “calling home” about you (your location, what you click on, how long you look at something on your phone, etc.) There are plenty of free options out there you can use, adguard has a browser extension you can use, or you can use something like pihole for a network-wide solution. I use pihole and it has a dashboard that shows the amount of things that have been blocked, and the amount of queries coming out of my network. It’s scary to see the thousands of things being blocked every day, even when I’m not home, and the amount of times our devices reach out to the internet without us even realizing it. Definitely not a foolproof solution, but certainly helps out and makes me feel a bit more secure.

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Incorrect-Username- t1_j24k3p2 wrote

For example out of about 22,000 queries so far today, almost 10,000 have been blocked. About %44.5.

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tjcanno t1_j24kkgu wrote

Truth. I use Blokada on my phone.

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samz22 t1_j24jzwu wrote

I use ublock on my laptop but I think it’s my google account sharing the data between devices.

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Incorrect-Username- t1_j24kqpc wrote

Yeah, google is terrible about that. Unfortunately, it’s hard prevent the services we use from collecting data on us. It’d be great if we could get some laws about that sort of thing, but we all know how that goes

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Procrasturbating t1_j24mgb6 wrote

The one that stores your current GPS coordinates and inertial sensor data does, to be fair it is probably on the server side of things depending on the apps installed.

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[deleted] t1_j24xt8q wrote

The Metadata , tracking of steps and the blueprint of your house that is public information. Extrapolated.

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