Re: Samsung account

On 3/14/2024 6:26 PM, Richmond wrote:

What I was thinking was that Samsung would be able to identify you if
you ordered the phone (or device) and had it delivered to your
house.

Guess I'm safe then. I got my Samsung phone from the Verizon store. Whew...

Samsung might also be able to pick up your phone number from your SIM
card (if you had one) and use that together with contact information
from others to find your name. I don't know if they actually do that
or have any interest in knowing who you are, they could sell
advertising just with some unique identifier. But they have tailored
android and could have put stuff in there to get information.

All of the above: Complete guesswork on your part.

I use google chrome on my desktop and I have even switched on their
new ad choices thing, which I think is quite a good solution to the
problem of selling personalized advertising without tracking.

I've been using Google a very long time now. Many years ago Gmail (in a
browser) actually did have ads. But in recent years I've not been able
to tie any ads directly to my Google account. Out of sight out of mind...

If I want to look up my medical conditions, or anything which I think
the government should not be so nosy (snoopers charter) about, then I
use TOR.

Paranoia in spades...