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What started your privacy journey? (lemmy.world)
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What started you down the path to privacy? Was it a particular event, article, podcast or something else?

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[–] Jessvj93@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Wanted to see if I could get my phone to show me ads for Tamale pots, a food I don't make nor know how, and also not something that's not commonly bought outside of holiday times. So I talked about it for days/weeks, not a single typed word, then one day I was seeing them on Facebook. Deleted my facebook, Instagram, installed app cloner to scramble my phone model/gps/location/google analytics ID, got mullvad vpn, and adblockers + uguard. App cloner also let's you isolate apps and force them into a sandbox where they can have fun with my fake data.