Today I was watching a few YouTube videos about groundwork with horses. First time I did that. Yes, I was logged in.

Later today, I hopped on Amazon to track one of my packages. And in my suggestions, there were horse grooming kits, halters and the like, even though I had never before looked for things like these on there.

My mail addresses are different on the two places, and so are, of course, my passwords. I am on Linux with Firefox, uBlock etc. So this must be an incredible coincidence, a miracle, mind-reading, or maybe witchcraft?

I wonder what I could tweak to make things like this happen less in future. I am thinking of adding a Pi-hole to my router, yet I am no longer so sure, if it would help?

  • @Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
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    19 months ago

    your first mistake was to use what I presume was a stock android phone with the official YouTube app. Switch to Lineage/Divest/Graphene and NewPipe

      • @Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
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        19 months ago

        ah, browser fingerprinting and IP address correlation then. Use Mullvad Browser or Cromite and a VPN. But now they have already correlated your two accounts so you’d have to make a new YouTube account or amazon account