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IP addresses are more promiscuous than email addresses--i.e. your family and neighbors are relatively likely to share an address and/or subnet. That means that
by fizx 8y ago
IP addresses are more promiscuous than email addresses--i.e. your family and neighbors are relatively likely to share an address and/or subnet.
That means that your family can see ads targeted at your bad habits that they might not otherwise be aware of.
- ndnxhs 8y agoI regularly see YouTube recommendations for the stuff my bf is watching and we don't share a computer and he is not logged in to YouTube.
- jobigoud 8y agoFirst time I hear about this. This would be very serious. Are you positive there is no other way, the Youtube recommendation algorithm is notoriously weird.
- Rjevski 8y agoI can confirm. I have very specific interests on YouTube (old cars, etc) that wouldn’t normally appear in the clickbait bucket aka homepage. When I opened YouTube on my friend’s computer connected to my WiFi (absolutely no way she’d get my YouTube cookies, and if anything she should have her own cookies) the front page had some of the stuff that I watch instead of the usual clickbait. Now I don’t watch anything that could be compromising but I can see this being an issue if someone is watching “sensitive” subjects and anyone can find out by just requesting the homepage from their IP.
- ndnxhs 8y agoI'm not positive about anything from google because I can't see how it works. All I know is he is on the same network and we see recommendations about stuff the other has watched