Originally Posted by
gthomson
. Would doubt it has anything to do with bike forums.
While you're comments about data being mined from other places is true (except devices listening without your express consent. This has been disproven except in the case of things like Alexa), BikeForums is very ad dependent and by nature those ad serving platforms are harvesting data. They also categorize that data based on what they know about you from here and other locations where their trackers live. They typically know age range, gender, location, device types, and your activity across the web. They also make money on the backend by selling data to data brokers.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...t-data-brokers
https://www.wired.com/story/data-bro...security-news/
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/nati...eport/2888792/