• Subverb@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Anecdotally, the odds are near zero that my wife and I can talk once about maybe buying some obscure thing like electric blinds and suddenly targetted ads for them somehow pop up on our devices.

      This happens a lot.

      I think you’re being naive if you believe they don’t locally distill our discussions into key words and phrases and transmit those.

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          11 months ago

          livestreaming this experiment to YouTube

          That in itself is concerning. Everyone is arguing that no company would invest resources to voice to text everything. But Google does it in YouTube.

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          11 months ago

          What a hilarious oversight with that experiment lol! He must have felt stupid when it was pointed out to him.