Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoIt’s interesting to me that they scan the video, and then know that I watched it (on tubular) when I’m visiting a completely unrelated website in a different browser, and serve me an ad there.
dustyData@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is what the big deal about cookies and privacy is all about.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yeah I’m just not sure how it has cookies since I used tubular…
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Fingerprinting. If they don’t have a cookie, they’ll link other information that they have to figure out with pretty decent accuracy who you are
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This must be it. Especially since they have my IP address it must be an easy fingerprint