YouTube user demonstrating how Facebook listens to conversations to serve ads

[The Murderous Cop]

https://youtu.be/U0SOxb_Lfps

[Ad Bot]

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[TristanLuigi]

while i wouldn't be surprised and i strongly recommend that people avoid facebook, this is a hilariously bad test

[Trogtor]

this stuffs real dude. i was in the car talking with my brother and his girlfriend, and the subject kinda changed to us talking about someone knew and long boarding. later his girl friend kept getting ads for skateboarding stuff.

same thing happened again except we were talking about some prescription drug or something. none of us were taking it. she suddenly started getting ads for it

[Fire Vine]

why would you take ideas from a loving dying website, its like if google started copying AOL

[SeventhSandwich]

I'm split on this. For one, it is 100% possible that Facebook is using machine learning to scan your conversations for keywords and use them to serve you advertising. This is completely within the bounds of modern artificial intelligence.

But also, on the internet, you are served thousands of ads per day, and most of them you will completely ignore. If you talk about something before going on Facebook, it's fresh in your mind, and you're more likely to recognize when a similar ad pops up. This is known as observational selection bias.

Another thing to consider is that your friend who was talking about the new movie/TV show probably liked it on Facebook or searched it on Google. Facebook almost certainly uses your friends' interests to tailor the ads you receive. This is still somewhat Orwellian but far less disturbing than Facebook/Alphabet listening to your private conversations over mic.

[Fire Vine]

This is still somewhat Orwellian but far less disturbing than Facebook/Alphabet listening to your private conversations over mic.

they actually loving do this?!?!??!!?

[Rockinboy2000]

cant wait... Zuckerberg 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmYzjjSfT8s

[SeventhSandwich]

they actually loving do this?!?!??!!?

I mean, it's not a person manually looking at your friends' interests and deciding what kinds of ads Fire Vine will get on Facebook. It's more like Facebook receives a big data matrix of general keywords that your friends search up, and that gets tossed into a giant maze of linear algebra that will allegedly give them a clearer idea of what kinds of ads you will receive.

Facebook already tracks everything you search or view on the website. It's not a coincidence that back when I was in high school, the girls I was crushing on the hardest would show up first on my news feed/messenger.

[Ipquarx]

they actually loving do this?!?!??!!?

Facebook definitely does, that's literally what the video is showing. What the app likely does is use speech-to-text, pick out keywords from your conversations as plain text and send them back to Facebook so you can get targeted ads for it. Completely unacceptable.

But i've never heard anything about google doing this.

[Fire Vine]

Facebook definitely does, that's literally what the video is showing. What the app likely does is use speech-to-text, pick out keywords from your conversations as plain text and send them back to Facebook so you can get targeted ads for it. Completely unacceptable.

But i've never heard anything about google doing this.

good thing i dont usualy use a mic jesus christ

[MicroEDGE]

good thing i don't use facebook cause i'm not a 40-year-old mom with 2 kids who love to play soccer

[SeventhSandwich]

good thing i don't use facebook cause i'm not a 40-year-old mom with 2 kids who love to play soccer

or a person who wants to keep in contact with their friends

[TristanLuigi]

or a person who wants to keep in contact with their friends

i just use discord for that

[Trogtor]

i just use discord for that

i gotta convince my family to switch to the superior red pilled social media platform...