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Throwaway for reasons. My wife and I enjoy porn in our relationship. On my birthday last year, we were settling in for some, romance, and we open up pornhub on

Throwaway for reasons. My wife and I enjoy porn in our relationship. On my birthday last year, we were settling in for some, romance, and we open up pornhub only to find ads trying to entice me into a discount subscription for my birthday. They knew it was my birthday! Which, really freaked me out because: 1) I don't have or never have had an account with them. I've never given them my age and birthday. In fact, I never give out my birthday on the internet. I don't even have a Facebook, twitter, or any other social media account. 2) It was on my wife's tablet. I never ever use her tablet, especially for browsing porn. Anyone have an idea the machinery involved in making this determination?

artificial 9y ago
Just a hunch, if you were accessing from home, most likely your IP address.
movedx 9y ago
If you have two devices in a house and one never accesses Google and the other does, Google will know it's you using the non-Google device each and every time. There's more to mining you then cookies and tracking pixels. They use IPs, hardware and software profiling, behavioural patterns, and even the way you type on your keyboard (this is very, very accurate.) In short: you need a "clean room" (Tails) every time you go online and you need to change where you're coming online from (VPN). You can also use tools to change your keyboard/typing "profile" so as to cripple that means of tracking. Oh and you can't login to virtually any online account at all, ever, because these cookies can be used too.
- rcraft 9y ago
  So if you use a VPN and incognito mode without logging into any online account, Google, Facebook, et al can still track you accurately? Curious any other tools besides vpn and private mode you would recommend? Any more links to read about these behaviorial, software and and type style tracking methods?
  - movedx 9y ago
    https://ssd.eff.org/en https://ssd.eff.org/en -- this is a great start and will lead you down a rabbit hole of links, tools, and intrigue :-)
ec109685 9y ago
Maybe they took a guess it was your birthday and you only noticed it because it actually was.

artificial 9y ago

Just a hunch, if you were accessing from home, most likely your IP address.

movedx 9y ago

If you have two devices in a house and one never accesses Google and the other does, Google will know it's you using the non-Google device each and every time. There's more to mining you then cookies and tracking pixels. They use IPs, hardware and software profiling, behavioural patterns, and even the way you type on your keyboard (this is very, very accurate.) In short: you need a "clean room" (Tails) every time you go online and you need to change where you're coming online from (VPN). You can also use tools to change your keyboard/typing "profile" so as to cripple that means of tracking. Oh and you can't login to virtually any online account at all, ever, because these cookies can be used too.

rcraft 9y ago
So if you use a VPN and incognito mode without logging into any online account, Google, Facebook, et al can still track you accurately? Curious any other tools besides vpn and private mode you would recommend? Any more links to read about these behaviorial, software and and type style tracking methods?
- movedx 9y ago
  https://ssd.eff.org/en https://ssd.eff.org/en -- this is a great start and will lead you down a rabbit hole of links, tools, and intrigue :-)

ec109685 9y ago

Maybe they took a guess it was your birthday and you only noticed it because it actually was.