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| hillkill:
i've been having these really eerie experiences with my google search recommendations for the past few months and it's been bothering me. for example, me and my friend were talking about birds and the topic of blue and yellow macaws came up. we talked about them for about 5 minutes. later during the same day, i was looking up electronics because i kinda wanted to get into them. i was going to type in "breadboard", but as soon as i typed in the letter "b", the loving blue and yellow macaws popped up. i had never searched it before, but it immediately came up. i struck it as odd, but didn't think of it too much. however what really got me is the loving ads in spanish. i have this hispanic friend and i visit his house occasionally. his family watches telemundo or some other spanish channel mainly. i never watched them, but i still heard them even when were in his room playing vidya games. about a day later i started to get these ads in spanish on facebook and youtube. i didn't really think much of it until i was laying down this morning, and then the question hit me: are they actively listening without my permission? i might just be paranoid and these are just a coincidence, i don't know. i'm actually kind of scared to have my phone on at all times. has anyone else felt this way? |
| joe411:
Honestly, I'm not surprised. Google has been tracking your search and browsing history for years all for the sake of advertising, listening for keywords is not out of their league. |
| Drydess:
literally every major corporation tracks you down for ad choice, walmart, google, apple, etc where were you talking about blue and yellow macaws though |
| Teneksi:
how did blue and yellow macaws come up? are you certain you'd never looked for a picture of one before? I find this extra weird because I looked up pages and images about the crown victoria like a madman then I did the same to the '79 cadillac coupe de ville then to the toyota hilux Perhaps they find me boring |
| hillkill:
--- Quote from: Teneksi on April 19, 2017, 08:27:39 PM ---how did blue and yellow macaws come up? are you certain you'd never looked for a picture of one before? --- End quote --- absolutely certain. i may have looked up birds about 2 years ago because i had a peak interest of them then, but i doubt that'd affect anything --- Quote from: Drydess on April 19, 2017, 08:26:54 PM ---literally every major corporation tracks you down for ad choice, walmart, google, apple, etc where were you talking about blue and yellow macaws though --- End quote --- at my house |
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