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[–] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has this story ever been confirmed by Target directly? As this happened in America and her father was outraged about it, it would have been awfully convenient, to “blame” the algorithm for “discovering”, she was pregnant. It takes quite a data analyst to figure out trends before someone even knows they are pregnant. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out a pattern for someone if they know they are pregnant and are just hiding it from their dad.

[–] what_is_a_name@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. It’s many years in my past, but this was confirmed. Target still does their targeting but now scatter unrelated items in the ads to hide what they know.

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

target still does their targeting

Awesome sentence