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Do you switch IPs, browsers, computers, etc every time you close the tab too? If not, Google tracks you.


Even if you did all that Google will track you. Whether they match up all your identities or not is another story.


Bring a laptop from your home back to your folks place and I bet they can make the connection...


No doubt whatsoever. A lot of those "Facebook is listening to my conversation" claims come from the fact that they'll associate people based on network locations, IPs, etc.

For example: You're at your friends house with the Facebook app, your friend clicks on an ad for socks. The next day you start seeing ads for socks despite not having any sock-related activity. This is just an oversimplified example.




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