More likely, your late’ish habits and searches combined with age and another mountain of data correlated with people that have the same thought. We are no snowflakes.
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elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Right around the confinement my sister and I were talking about getting some seeds for my mom. Neither of us searched for seeds. From that point we both started to get ads for seeds, many for the ones we had talked about in particular. This thing was so unequivocal that it proved to me that our phones listen. Maybe they don’t analyze, but they definitely listen for words actionable for an advertising purposes.
WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 1 day ago
3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The thing is you can test it, simply never search anything related to it and see if you get ads, maybe I accidentally searched something but it works, or it could be wifi based maybe they searched something and it effected everyones ads, this could make sense if my roommates searched stuff and it effected my ads
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I happened to say out loud to my girlfriend that there is a chance (a small one) that my ADHD medication can cause something called TD (Tardive Dyskinesia).
Suddenly, our Netflix is showing adds for a new medication for it.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s why i always forbid access to my microphones by apps. Many AI apps will also remember what you discussed long ago.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 day ago
OS doesn’t need permissions to access hardware