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by sayhar 1589 days ago
How could they tell you were on that subreddit? Presumably you were doing it from a separate browser on the phone -- can they really snoop on behavior in completely separate apps?
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Indeed they shouldn't be able to know that without deliberately bypassing the phone's security features using vulnerabilities. Maybe confirmation bias is at play here?
I guess it could be the same IPv6 address, or IPv4 + user agent matching with a third party ad categorization service.
> How could they tell you were on that subreddit? Presumably you were doing it from a separate browser on the phone -- can they really snoop on behavior in completely separate apps?

The subreddit was opened in an incognito window, and the native app on the same phone.