If you want to have an idea of how your behavior's being tracked, purposely search for something to buy that's unusual (to you, that is), then watch it follow you around for a good long time.
As many have commented, and this is an even better idea: talk about it. Pick a random thing you have no use for and no plans on buying, write it down on a piece of paper, show it to your partner/housemates, and talk incessantly about it for 15 minutes. Then see what happens.
For those of you noticing ads after lingering in a store department, or when you’re at the checkout counter: lifehacker.com/how-retail-sto…
👆🏻That article is from 2013. Think they’ve exponentially fine-tuned that tech? I do. And ask yourself this: are you okay with it being used to influence your political beliefs? Or to suck people into extremist belief systems?
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