These are two companies.
We are lucky to still have 2 choices
Who sell you as a consumer to vast ad agencies and make a profit off your doom scrolling.
Here’s the fun part, they don’t need to listen to you. You are far more predictable than you realize. They already know everything about you, what you search, what apps you use, what kinds of exercise you do and when, what you eat, what articles you read, movies and podcasts you consume, music you listen to, what you buy, where you go, who you hang out with, and everything about the people you hang out with. Every minute of your life is meticulously tracked and analyzed and compared to the hundred thousand people who are just like you in terms of interests and patterns. They can predict to a scary degree what your thinking before you might even realize it yourself. They know you better than you know yourself. Why waste the resources sifting through hours of recordings when they already know everything going on in your head from the million data points you voluntarily transmit to them everyday?
The other part of this to keep in mind is that you are bombarded with ads all day most of which you ignore. It’s just that those few times where they manage to hit a straight bullseye, showing you an add for something you were just talking about or even just thinking about, those are the ones that will stick in your memory.
then how do you explain facebook giving people ads for stuff they say
eg. this youtuber made an experiment where he wasn’t getting ads for oven and when he started saying oven multiple times, he got ads for oven https://youtu.be/-nkiPEGU_lYOr Facebook recommending people that I’ve talked to by text and never met irl (met on dating app, moved to text, fizzled out) when it’s not supposed to have access to my contacts.
This is such a fucking dumb comment lol.
But I don’t see any ads. I use ublock on PC and mobile. I use only lemmy and mastodon and I have multiple apps to watch youtube ad free.
Well, I should probably say that the ads I do see, I see voluntarily. Like trailers for instance.My dumbass reread this comment 3 times before I realized you weren’t looking into buying trailers
Dumb take is dumb
NGL this is driving me crazy. Without searching for things, just talking about them, they start showing up in ads. Even in places that don’t have google/alexa speakers.
At this point, I’m reaching full-tinfoil and think they have a voice chip installed under my skinl…
One time I was in a car with some people, and the clouds looked really nice, and out loud I said “I wonder what kind of clouds those are? Are they like cumulus? I don’t even know all the types of clouds” or something along those lines. About a minute later, I take my phone out to look it up and I type “What kind of” and the google auto-fill was “clouds are those” and I was like "There’s absolutely no way that my phone is not listening to me at all times. I do not believe for one second that the most popular search is “What kind of clouds are those”. That was very very specific to what I had just said out loud.
I’m usually not one for tinfoil hats, but this is very difficult to explain.
The most likely situation is that it used the GPS data that it scrapes from you to recognize you’re in a car. Then uses their internal knowledge to know that most of the time when other users are in cars and Google “what kind of” they are asking about clouds.
Still hoovering up way too much personal data.
Or that people around had already been googling this question very recently.
Yeah it’s definitely just regional popular searches for this situation
Similar story with me. In my car with my friends. I have never listened to Bob Marley, nor his genre of music. I have never had a reason to look him up. Anyways, through or random conversations, we got to talking about him and wondering how he died. We came up with a few theories before I decided to grab my phone and Google it. I literally just pressed ‘H’ and wouldn’t you know it, the first suggestion was “How did Bob Marley die?” Needless to say I was creeped the fuck out after that
I just did some volunteer work to help some flood wreckage.
We were using these generic ass storage totes to package shit up in and help people move out or whatever.
Me and like 5 other people all had ads for the generic totes.
I figure it was like "YO THAT GUY THAT BOUGHT 100,000 TOTES IS HANGING OUT WITH THESE GUYS, MAYBE THEY WANT 100,000 TOTES TOO??!
anyways welcome to the future it sucks.
I like how I bought a vacuum months ago and everything keeps advertising them at me. I already got one! How many damn vacuums do you people think someone needs? Because the answer is almost never more than one. If they’re collecting my data they should also be well aware that there’s no way in hell I’m dropping $1k on a Dyson lmao
That’s hilarious, but more than likely that’s exactly what happened. I listened to someone explain the process on a podcast recently, can’t remember which one maybe the Vergecast or vox today explained. But the example they used is you go to a country club you hang out with a friend who just bought a Porsche or whatever. They use your phones location to know you are always going to this location and sticking within a few feet of this other phone, the owner of which has the new Porsche. Well they figure that’s your friend and he’s probably talking up his porche, and your in the right demographic to buy a Porsche and you haven’t bought a new car in x years, so guess what now you get Porsche ads. So what you described perfectly fits that example, they figured you’d all be suckers for some totes.
Shhhh!!! My husband still doesn’t know it’s my fault he’s been getting manga ads and I can’t make fun of him for having anime boyfriends if he finds out. Even worse. He’ll be in a position to make fun of me AND he’ll get to be smug about it. This is my life hanging in the balance here 🥺
You sit on a teetering throne of lies!
So many of you are on Lemmy and have ZERO privacy awareness. Gtfo please and leave the actual techies alone.
This isn’t “hopeless” you fuckers. DuckDuckGo how to protect yourself from things like this photo.
Also apple watching through the window and having “exclusive” rights to sell the same data.
Uninstall Facebook, install AeroInsta and YouTube Revanced, and use DuckDuckGo
Is there a app like AeroInsta but just for Facebook Marketplace? Where I live, it’s the only way people sell used things
How often do you use it? I’d just use a browser if possible
Unfortunately I need it daily for work ;/
I’d love an alternative, but… You know. Gotta pay the bills and share my life with the zuck
That’s why I don’t delete my account. It’s thankfully rare anymore but I have to use it for ad reports occasionally
does aeroinsta and revanced make any privacy improvements?
I’d say to use newpipe for youtube as it is better for privacy(uses youtube scraping instead of official api so youtube gets minimal telemetry back from you) and insta lite as it is focused on cheap phones so it probably has less trackers for smoothness
also they aren’t as visually pleasing so you won’t be addicted to doomscrolling (instsagram lite on purpose shows you only posts from last 3 days on your feed)AeroInsta outright blocks the trackers. I’ve never seen a search related content on Instagram because of it.
Revanced, alongside paused history and opt out of ad personalisation, keeps entire history to yourself.
Even YouTube on web can only recommend videos based on my subscription and nothing else.
I periodically say random product names or search for things id have no use for just to see how far and wide it goes…it’s bad.
Wasting multiple options by repeating both companies twice…
One time a buddy and I were talking about cars, a Toyota supra came up. I haven’t said that phrase since gran Turismo in the 90s. Ad the next day
To be honest even after listening to all shits, they suggest me stupid things which I don’t even care about.
If it was just that, it wouldn’t even bother me all that much. But we know it’s more than that and they still want way more
