• Subverb
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    610 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 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.

      • @targetx
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        210 months ago

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

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        210 months ago

        You are assuming he had the belief before the events when it could be the events creating the belief.