You know these algorithms are designed for predictive advertisement based off your previous activity. What is likely going on is this:
10,000 users who searched these terms also decided to search or want this “thing” next.
“Woah, it’s reading my mind! How did it know I was thinking about that?!”
It’s funny, nobody pays attention when the algorithm guesses wrong, we only notice it when it’s freakishly accurate.
Except when it's YouTube recommendations, then they only pay attention when it's wrong and not when it's right.
What, you don’t want right wing misinformation shoved down your throat constantly despite reporting it every time you see it?
As if YouTube would ever get it right.
Stop accepting ads in your life, ffs. What is it with people and steadfastly refusing to install an adblock? Are you stupid?
They either don't know adblock exists or are listening to YouTubers like Linus, who claim that blocking ads on their videos is "stealing"
Given all my adblockers, getting ads at all is what scares me
Yesterday my ublock failed me and I had to watch a full 5 seconds of ads for 3 times! Fortunately it seems to work after updating filters now
You guys get ads?
mobile phones man
Use a dns blocker (like nextdns) for systemwide ad blocking meaning it blocks mobile ads too. I haven’t had an ad in ages.
Edit: Or use something like adaway if you’re on android.
I've got ublock origin in firefox on my phone. Pihole also helps. So I ask again: you guys get ads?
Wait, did we go from being freaked out that our devices might be passively recording our speech to accepting it as the "good and normal" version of things? Cause I'm pretty alarmed at both.
I was going to say this! Just goes to show how dangerously effective mass conditioning by unscrupulous corporations is!
Hell, a lot of people think that caring about data privacy and -security AT ALL is for losers unless naked pics are involved 🤦
bUtItSfOrThEcHiLdRen!!11!1!
dOyOuHaVeSoMeThInGtOhIdE?11??!?1?
My favorite counterargument is asking these idiots if they close the toilet door. Because if they don't want people to watch them shit, then they probably are hiding some suspicious stuff.
Your devices recording you is something that doesn't happen.
That requires a lot of bandwidth, or a lot of battery and a little bandwidth. There's no evidence of that happening.
Honestly, the creepier thing is that they don't have to to get creepily accurate ads.
Geolocation data means they know who you spend time with. They also know their search history. They know your interests. They can look at what people who seem similar to you search for.
Plus, they serve you a lot of ads so they can afford to have a lot of misses.
You get ads:
💀💀💀
I genuinely feel bad for the people who actually get ads online these days.
What are ads?
-pihole / uBlock / Brave browser user
you get ads
no i dont
I haven't seen ads in years lol. I'm very aggressively adblocked on every layer possible. Even down to setting my router to use an adblocker dns as a final protection layer.
Don't worry, those big platforms can't read your thoughts. Those ads aren't there because you thought of those things.
Because it's the other way around. They want you to buy the stuff they have ads for so they manipulate you into thinking about those things first.
So they have read AND write access to your thoughts.
it is genuinely possible op saw an ad, then they thought about it but forgot about the ad, then saw the ad again and frequency bias kicked in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion)
I've been doubting my sexuality lately and I freaked out when Google recommended an ad with LGBT couple on it. Not even my friends or family know that side of me.
Oh, it's been proven Google and corporate social medias (and Walmart?!?) can figure out that stuff before you do.
You get ads about things you have photographed. If you give Facebook image access, it will scan ALL of your photos locally. I had some photos of couches it started giving me ads for them.
You get ads
😱
The function that is yourself had been approximated.
Can't even imagine getting a simple ad
What's really gonna bake your noodle later is if you'd have thought about that thing at all if it wasn't something they were advertising...
I used to get ads exclusively for cleaning supplies on this one music app I used only when I cleaned. Never talked about cleaning, just the sounds of cleaning and dishes being done. Probably a coincidence but it freaked me out enough I stopped using that and just downloaded a shit ton of music to my phone.
Ad-blocker blocker blocking ad blocker in sites scares me
Getting doored while out riding, then falling into the road and getting run over by a garbage truck.
I ride my bike a lot. Somebody getting out of the back seat of a 4 door with out looking is a huge danger.
