Your phone app display suddenly shows an ad for a topic you only discussed in private conversation. How do you respond?

I was chatting with a colleague over lunch about an under-the-radar hiking boot brand I’ve never searched for online. An hour later, a prominent ad for that exact company popped up on my social feed carousel. It feels incredibly intrusive. What is your data security priority?

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100% voted Regularly clear your device's advertising identifier and tracking cache in settings
Actively audit and restrict microphone permissions across all non-essential applications 0%
0 votes
Transition to using privacy-focused, open-source mobile browsers with built-in ad blockers 0%
0 votes
Accept telemetry tracking as a standard modern convenience and disregard the ads 0%
0 votes
♛ Regularly clear your device's advertising identifier and tracking cache in settings 100%
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