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Originally Posted by john70t

Installing an "app" for a website is pure lunacy. They may ID you with an IP and whatever identifying info your phone/computer sends but that is the most you should give them. Use blocking tools like privacybadger and noscript for cross-scripting and allowing other sites to track you.

Facebook got busted for tracking users even when not on their website. Google had a 90% dominance on targeted advertising and even government websites don't function without it's spyware. I call it internet stalking by corporations which are people but it's all okay. People still use those sites even after being made aware, so great is the allure of social media and the ignorance.

I was flipping through google shorts most of last night to find the patterns.
-Most are stupid tricks or couples pranks, overlaid with a dozen hip hop songs to select from.
-A few feel good animal rescues.
-A few DEI public reaction videos alluding to who lets strangers approach them and deeply interact. Subliminal racist stuff.
-A few diamonds in the rough with real tips and tricks.
-Random things being made with overlay of random conversations.
-About 1/5th of the vids are ads for young women to buy starbucks from grubhub because it 'saves them so much time in the morning'. Sure. Waiting around for some sketchy dude to finally bring you expensive cold coffee. Brilliant.

I think pretty much every website tries to track you and get as much data as possible from you. And websites can track you fairly easily by fingerprinting your browser. If they are able to learn 100 different bits of information about you through your browser, and those 100 pieces of information have anywhere from 2 to 100 different options, then there are a huge number of variations. And those variations may not be perfectly unique, but they are likely to be pretty close. And that information is fed to or bought from the folks that collect that information. The next thing you know you're getting targeted ads, videos, websites suggested to you every where you go.

So, instead of seeing all of the possibilities of the WWW, you're seeing the one little corner of it that they think makes you happy, and you may never seen the rest.