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Does Firefox private browsing still work?
A few months ago I logged out of Facebook and cleared out all known Facebook cookies from Chrome. Then I moved my Facebook account to a separate account container within Firefox. Use that container for FB and FB only. And I never access FB from Chrome. Yet somehow ads relevant to very specific searches I did on Chrome still appear on FB. Can someone explain how this is happening?
P.S. On my mobile phone, I never installed FB app, and I use Firefox Focus as my default browser.
- iamjimfan 8y agoNo idea but I would love to know why. Anyway I ain't facebook user and would not do any deal with this beast.
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- Tomte 8y agoThere are a myriad of ways to track people online. Cookies are only the simplest one. And maybe it's just chance.
- hliyan 8y agodefinitely not chance. It happened several times. The most recent is me doing a search for Talend on Chrome. The next time I open up Facebook on the Firefox container, a Talend advertisement is right there...
- cimmanom 8y agoThey could also be using your IP address.
- hliyan 8y agoI don't have a static address. I go through an ISP...
- cimmanom 8y agoMy experience with ISPs is that your address isn’t static enough that you’d what to attach DNS to it, but it does persist for several days at a time. I had one cable provider that changed up IPs every week, but most seem to change only when you reboot the modem.