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People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you (www.uniladtech.com)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (56 children)

What I want to know is why when I'm talking to my wife in the car about buying new shoes do I get a YouTube ad that evening about new shoes, when I never got that kind of ad before.

Are our phones listening to us while we talk in the car, and then ads are generated from that?

I'd really like to know the answer to that question.

Edit: fixed typo, shoes, not shows.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Answer is no. Google Ads doesn't work that way. If you perceive such a coincidence, it just happened by chance or you or your wife sent out other signals that buying new shoes is a topic for you.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If you perceive such a coincidence, it just happened by chance or you or your wife sent out other signals that buying new shoes is a topic for you.

None of that happened though. It was on a long car trip, no Internet web browsing done, and no previous searches done from home.

The only time shoes were relevant was a verbal discussion in the vehicle.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Still a high chance for a coincidence. And the human mind tends to see patterns to structure the world. Shoe advertisement is not particularly rare in the web.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Still a high chance for a coincidence.

How? Its an isolated environment where the conversation is being had.

And the human mind tends to see patterns to structure the world.

Its an explicit viewing of a commercial of a type that is not normally seen. Not exactly a pattern.

Shoe advertisement is not particularly rare in the web.

I never saw any on YouTube until the evening of that conversation. /shrug

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Coincidence in the sense that the ad that you saw had absolutely no connection to your talk. It was just a random ad. No all advertisements are targeted precisely. I work in the field and a lot of campaigns on YouTube are just targeted to a selected YT-channel, or a topic like sport videos, or maybe an age group. That's all. You see an ad because you watched a channel. Like on TV.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Coincidence in the sense that the ad that you saw had absolutely no connection to your talk. It was just a random ad.

I'm willing to admit that's possible, but when I haven't seen any for a couple of years (truly), and then see one the same evening, that seems like more than just a coincidence to me. /shrug

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