I watched a single youtube video about Israel-Iran two days ago cause I wanted to check comments and see peoples opinions, then that very night I got messaged by unkown numbers to talk about it.
Had conspiracy theories form in my head about some kind of deepstate putting me on the watchlist so I pretended to be centrist just in case.
Lots of ways. If the video was watched via phone app, phone number can be collected directly. If logged into a google account on the device that viewed the video, google had the number already. Could also be from matching internet traffic over a shared IP, device with a known phone number pinged google through house’s WIFI, another device on the same WIFI watched the YouTube video.
Ooh kinda similar thing.
I watched a single youtube video about Israel-Iran two days ago cause I wanted to check comments and see peoples opinions, then that very night I got messaged by unkown numbers to talk about it.
Had conspiracy theories form in my head about some kind of deepstate putting me on the watchlist so I pretended to be centrist just in case.
(Don’t judge my last reply, it was 4 am)
hes into politics, just not with you
how the fuck do they get your phone number just from you watching a video???
Lots of ways. If the video was watched via phone app, phone number can be collected directly. If logged into a google account on the device that viewed the video, google had the number already. Could also be from matching internet traffic over a shared IP, device with a known phone number pinged google through house’s WIFI, another device on the same WIFI watched the YouTube video.