I posted something on here. A few minutes later saw weather was getting weird and checked my phone. I was getting the weather report for Westchester. I dont live anywhere near there. How did that happen unless they were monitoring my phone?
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Google is tracking you via inserting cookies into your browser.
Clean all cookies on your phone browser and and on your computer and make sure you are never logged into anything that Google owns.
Also, if you are logged into Facebook they are tracking you on every site that has a Facebook like button and if you are logged into Facebook on both your phone (or if you have an app) and on your computer they will link the two and will track you. They will also sell that data to dozens of advertising networks.
Finally, both google and facebook take contextual data from your searchers or browsing history. For example, Facebook will track that you saw a page that has to do with basketball, they will add it to your advertising profile they have built and will sell the info to anyone willing to pay for it - now they know you like basketball, they get your IP address and they hook you up with an ad that there will be a basketball game somewhere close to you.
So, any site (including this) where you have google and facebook inserting search or like buttons is tracking you - they do not know who exactly you are but they do know what you surf, what you search, what you like etc. And all of that is being neatly stored into your advertising profile that builds up over years of surfing and liking stuff.
Right now, your best bet is to use Safari on iphone/ipad (you'll need ios v12 or later) - apple blocked all of this tracking on safari so they will not be able to connect the dots or link your devices.
hopefully this helps...