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		itronitron on Dec 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google is not a search engine, but an ad engine >> This is all done in Firefox in private mode, so this is not because Google has tracked my behavior. Other people have mentioned that your machine can still be tracked via browser fingerprinting despite being in private mode

deng on Dec 15, 2019 [–]

OK, I just went to my wife's computer who has never searched for Kodi or Debian in her life. Exactly the same results in Firefox private mode.

Andrew_nenakhov on Dec 15, 2019 | [–]

You are likely to share the same IP. When my wife searches for something, I'm regularly bombarded by ads related to her searches, and vice versa

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