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Are you sure the data is from the purchase? For example, did you search for similar things before making the purchase?

Otherwise, sometimes I suspect ads are targeted by IP. Sometimes I see ads for things my wife is interested in.

You might want to try VPN. At least you'll see ads for all the sketchy things other VPN users buy!

I _suspect_ I might have clicked a link for order tracking outside private mode (Gmail's Chrome WebView, go figure...)

Now, to prevent such events in the future I installed Firefox on my smartphone along with uBlock Origin. I use FF on desktop since forever, should have used it on mobile as well.

Brave seems to me better at anti-tracking than Firefox nowadays. Third-party cookies are blocked by default

Just to provide more domain info: if you’re On iOS, the web view in each app has its own profile/cookie store.

FYI: My neighbor smokes cigars. After I made my post above... I saw ads for cigars.

They're probably tracking you via IP.

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