A few minutes ago, I’m just reading the news from the RSS feeder app called Feeder and then suddenly I got a notification from x from Linux handbook which I was seeing in the feeder app. How?

  • @mahony
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    10 months ago

    Its most probably not that X has access to your phone. I believe since some older version of android, all apps are sandboxed and there are rules to what they have access to (Android Run Time, SELinux). How this works IMHO is you are using a normie (google) android phone. You have an advertising ID assigned to it (you can find it in the setting under Privacy/Marketing), which is visible to apps, therefore the Feeder app sees it and sells the data of what you are looking at tied to the ID, someone buying it for a campaign on an exchange and uses it for marketing on X, which shows it to you based on that same advertising ID because it can see it also. To avoid 95% of tracking like this, use a degoogled android phone. In case you use iPhone, there is nothing you can do.

      • @mahony
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        310 months ago

        True you can turn off using Add ID for personalization on iPhone.

    • TanknSpank
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      310 months ago

      On Android (13) you can delete the advertising ID under Security & Privacy > More privacy settings > Ads

      • @mahony
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        110 months ago

        Cool, they really are trying to get rid of the middlemen.

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      110 months ago

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