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Says the person with a Lemmy profile. Do you pay bills online? Do you search things? Use maps?
Congrats, you have a shadow profile out there logging all the data about you.
You didn't keep shit private if you're carrying a GPS tracker on you at all times, which you are(your phone). You are VASTLY misunderstanding digital privacy and how statistics works. You don't have to type a single foreign language word for them to know you speak it. Just go to places and hang around people that it knows speaks it and it'll make the assumption. Every person you interact with who shares EVERYTHING is, congrats, basically a snitch on you as well.
It's statistics, like I said.
So your theory is the there is no opsec if any cellphones or anything with GPS are involved?
That sounds legit. If your GPS location is on at all times (assuming this is on your cellphone), then they've got enough geolocation data to associate you to your partner.
And if it's off? Your SIM card is acting like a GPS (though a less-accurate one than your phone). Do you trust your mobile service provider to not be selling this data? (And this would be even more of a factor if they're also your partner's service provider, and/or your ISP)
Yeah, so a mitigation would be to remove the GSM chip and be WiFi only, with a Faraday cage to ensure the WiFi is not on by accident or the software is backdoored. Also would need to remove the mic and speakers to avoid any cross chatter
But at that point might as well just have a laptop with external WiFi only
Anddd... You use wifi to connect to their servers, so they'll have your residential ip (unless you got a VPN on at all times... And even then there's probs some way to fingerprint you enough). Partner uses the same wifi network and your profiles are linked again...
There really just is no way to completely escape. Blocking all ads and trackers on a DNS level (using a pi-hole or external service like nextdns[paid, but its pretty good]). Is a good solution though, at least you won't need to actually see ads