So I am recently looking up the options to buy a new EV and, clearly, I’ve been discussing it with my family and close friends.

There was one constant tho, anytime we ended up discussing it, THEIR phones would light up with a plethora of Car adverts.

This has made my mother snap, she has told me she wants to buy the same phone as mine and I’ve finally been able to discuss with her other ways these devices are made to work for the manufacturer, not their buyers.

So far so good! I personally can’t wait to setup the GrapheneOS phone for her.

  • MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml
    9·
    13 days ago

    I’m glad for the switch. Buuuut it doesn’t work like that.

    You search cars heavily. You and your Mum have FB/social media. You have Bluetooth or location or WiFi on. Social knows your hanging out and likely to discuss cars. It shows them ads.

    A tech podcast did a dive into this. It even works if your partner and mum arnt connected on social media. Imagine your Mum lives interstate. Mum searches plane tickets and is coming in a month, during the time she searches perfumes but doesn’t buy. A few days before arrival your partner gets perfume ads from a place nearby. When mum lands she talks about getting perfume. Partner has been primed where to go.

    Its insidious. Graphine will help a little but if you use the internet there is still tracking.

    My phone carrier requires an app to change plans. I installed it in a separate profile then the next day got ads for it in FB.

  • krolden@lemmy.ml
    8·
    14 days ago

    You also shouldnt buy a new car because it’s going to do the same thing her phone was doing

    • racoon@lemmy.ml
      2·
      13 days ago

      lol “if you pay thousands of dollars for a car with surveillance capitalism features, you are the product”

  • f371ks@lemmy.world
    7·
    14 days ago

    My partner had some similar instances where she discussed selling a niche product and ads popping up all of a sudden while we did not search for it or anything.

    Are there any focused ideas on how this is triggered? First thing I thought of was us being listened in to but this is mostly dismissed when I read up online.

    • Gonzako@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      14 days ago

      Can they attest that they didn’t interact with an online version of it? Googling it/the brand of it. otherwise yeah, we being spied on, be it audibly or otherwise is indifferent to me

    • Two9A@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 days ago

      I had this problem on Graphene, but (in the UK at least) there are alternative wallet apps. I’m on Curve myself.