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by filleokus
1017 days ago
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I think no hard evidence has ever come from theories like this. And like the sibling comment said, considering how much scrutiny major social media apps (and the Android OS) is under from security researchers - surely someone would have noticed by know. But. I also think this shows how spookily good the surveillance ad tech really is, and to what extent the major players (Alphabet, Meta etc) keep track of people. Non-techy people attribute it to microphones and dictation, while in reality it is just enormous amount of old school digital behaviour tracking. (And a dash or two of frequency illusion bias of course, people tend to ignore the "hot single moms in your area" or super general ads with less impressive targeting) |
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An average user with an adblock gets hundreds, maybe even thousands of ads every day, for new cars, clutch replacements, diapers, washing detergent, shadow raid vpn, local political party, mcdowells, kentucky fried pizza, sex toys, 1:9 baluns, cisco console cables... and they don't even notice most of them.
And then something happens, your washing machine fails, you talk about it, open google, get ads for tampax, ignore them, find service, fix it and forget about everything. Then you watch stranger things, google the reviews, get an ad for yard fences, ignore that and forget about that too. Then you talk with your wife how you're out of detergent, turn on youtube and get a detergent ad... "wait, we were just talking about that? how did they know?! microphones, spying, conspiracy!".