@Ulrich_the_elder @blaurascon they have scraped the contact books and e-mail contents of almost everyone you know.
They track smartphones of relatives and site navigation from every PC everywhere through their global advertising monopoly.
I bet they buy offline shopping data and insurance data and credit card and banking records.
It's not possible to avoid them knowing.
@janvenetor @blaurascon I am not going to tell you all the things I do nor the lengths that I am willing to go to in order to safeguard myself online but I will tell you I have never even once seen what has appeared t be a targeted ad... The advertisers do not seem to even know what gender I might be.