Most likely this. If not, there is a host of other possibilities they could make the connection. Sone that come to mind:

• You both have instagram and have connected in a way that makes it likely you are in a close relationship (tagged in photos, DMs)
• She allows Instagram to access the contacts on her phone, and OP is saved in there as her S.O.
• They are connected through Whatsapp or some other Meta service.
• The Company targets their ads at category which they both fall into (companies can manage which groups see their ads VERY specifically)
• Coincidence

and if you pay them to not show you ads, rest assured that they will still process and share your data.

Floppy drives don’t use IDE, they use their own type of connector ( called a floppy connector), I’ve never seen a Sata to floppy adaptor, but you can connect a usb to floppy adapter to an internal usb header

I can’t help you with your problem, just wanted to note that Firefox is not the only non-chrome browser out there. The big one is Safari, which is it’s own thing based on the Webkit rendering engine. But there are others aswell. Iirc the standard browser that comes with GNOME is also based on Webkit, and there are a few Firefox forks (like the previously mentioned Waterfox or the Mullvad Browser) out there.

so basically try to avoid driving at any speed between 130 and 200 km/h

the point isn’t that we didn’t know before, the point is now we can actually prove the pope knew about the concentration camps.

correct me if I’m wrong but just overwriting the whole disk it wouldn’t make a difference if it is SMR. SMR is only slower if you want to overwrite something kn the middle of it because it then needs to change and re write adjacent tracks.

not available on iOS

I found that, awesome! Brave now sits on my phone for the sole purpose of youtube.

thanks a ton, never knew this worked

give AntiX a shot, I run it on my own older laptop and it’s super snappy. Be aware it doesn’t come with a DE, just your choice of 4 WMs, and is quite bare bones but still a fully functional Distro out of the box.

100% on Safari on iOS with AdGuard and PiHol

well, off i understand you correctly, you want to just stay logged in and never bother with the password in your device? That comes with a heap of problems:

• what if someone else gains access to your device, they’d have instant access to all your accounts
• what if your device died? If you don’t know the passwords you can never log in on anything else.
• if you whitelist cookies those sites could track you across other sites, thus INCREASING your attack surface

doesn’t safari also hav it’s own engine?

but creators won’t move because YT fights adblockers. Creators make money from the ads, so this actually improves YT for them.