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Halfway through the article has a list of "VPNs" to keep you "safe" from tracking. Feels pretty disingenuous.

I get this is a popular topic ("your phone is listening to show you ads"). And already had some non-technical friends ask me about it. So at least the article gives a detailed explanation about targeted advertising and fingerprinting.

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Except the VPN probably wouldn't help with this problem, would it? Their data isn't being intercepted by some evil MITM.

My coworker and I had exactly the same thought about that VPN ad.

It looks very much like a blogvertisment. That is a blog post written only for the purpose of actually being an advertisement for some product (in this case, for VPN providers).

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