I have been finding more and more videos being recommended on my homepage which I search about even though my privacy paths I follow seem good enough. So this is how it goes:
- I come across a term I don’t know on a Lemmy post.
- I open my browser, Cromite which has been set to priv.au, a searx instance, as the default search engine.
- Search the word and don’t even open any links to know, just reading the meaning of this term out from the subtexts present on search results.
- And then I open YouTube and scroll a bit on homepage to find a video on that term.
This has happened to me twice in past few days and I am not understanding which service of mine is giving it away. To add more about my setup, I’m on mobile btw, using FUTO keyboard and using Duckduckgo VPN which blocks cross-app tracking. My mobile lemmy client is Voyager. I don’t even interact with the post containing that term. I just open it up, read the post and the comments. No upvoting no commenting.
Who’s the culprit here?
No it’s not. I can’t really prove it but I just know when Baader–Meinhof phenomenon happens. This is a case of Youtube tracking me because a video on such topics, surrounding that terms, can’t really just happen on my feed, twice.
Did you notice that lately it’s happen more frequently?
These things happens to me too, and the frequency have measurably increase in this last year.