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Maybe the data is sold from some of the apps on our smartphones. Also, pretty sure most of the payment providers folk e-shops use on their checkouts sell the da
by WhackyIdeas 3y ago
Maybe the data is sold from some of the apps on our smartphones. Also, pretty sure most of the payment providers folk e-shops use on their checkouts sell the data to Google (and I am dead certain Google were bragging about knowing about almost any transaction which happens on the on the web). That is a part in the chain which not even most online shops would even be aware of.
- cornflake23 3y agoYup, I often speculate that for me, perhaps for many others, apps (and the Android/iOS platforms) are the source. I’ve been slowly switching to web/desktop based alternatives- those too have their issues (eg correlating all the traffic out of my single home NAT’d IP address. Mulling deleting apps off my phone as well, but many non-app “mobile” experiences are completely unusable.