How Advertisers Track You on Your Mobile Phone

 By 
Todd Wasserman
 on 
How Advertisers Track You on Your Mobile Phone
Credit: Mashable, Christopher Mineses

If you've ever searched for something on Amazon, and then saw multiple online ads for that product over the next few days, you've seen how advertisers can use your personal data.

On desktop, that's a fairly straightforward process: A website uses cookies to track you wherever you go.

As the infographic, below, explains, mobile is a lot different:

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