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I'm glad for the switch. Buuuut it doesn't work like that.
You search cars heavily. You and your Mum have FB/social media. You have Bluetooth or location or WiFi on. Social knows your hanging out and likely to discuss cars. It shows them ads.
A tech podcast did a dive into this. It even works if your partner and mum arnt connected on social media. Imagine your Mum lives interstate. Mum searches plane tickets and is coming in a month, during the time she searches perfumes but doesn't buy. A few days before arrival your partner gets perfume ads from a place nearby. When mum lands she talks about getting perfume. Partner has been primed where to go.
Its insidious. Graphine will help a little but if you use the internet there is still tracking.
My phone carrier requires an app to change plans. I installed it in a separate profile then the next day got ads for it in FB.
The only relatively safe way to avoid it is to not use any app unless it's from f-droid or similar places, to use a degoogled phone, to use an adblocker for all websites, to use an end-to-end messenger for private conversations and not social media, to use federated non-profit social media if you ever use any at all, to use a paid email provider that doesn't make money of your data as primary income, and to use an actually private web search (not Bing, not Google).
It's a shame that it requires so much knowledge and effort for a bare minimum of privacy.