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Google-Amazon connection? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Today I was watching a few YouTube videos about groundwork with horses. First time I did that. Yes, I was logged in.

Later today, I hopped on Amazon to track one of my packages. And in my suggestions, there were horse grooming kits, halters and the like, even though I had never before looked for things like these on there.

My mail addresses are different on the two places, and so are, of course, my passwords. I am on Linux with Firefox, uBlock etc. So this must be an incredible coincidence, a miracle, mind-reading, or maybe witchcraft?

I wonder what I could tweak to make things like this happen less in future. I am thinking of adding a Pi-hole to my router, yet I am no longer so sure, if it would help?

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago*

The simplest and most reasonable explanation is because they profit from it. They are competing but they know a win-win situation.

All these fucking guys and big tech companies are a big club. They all know eachother and hang out together. Users are a resource to be mined. Who cares if it gives teenagers psychological problems. More drug sales sounds great for their buddies in big pharma.

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