The link is very tenuous in my example as I don’t have twitter and am not friends with my boss on FB. I understand the possible explanations but it worrying that they can correlate that much info
Perhaps your boss was so happy with the operation that she recommended all her staff as friends.
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Yeah mine absolutely reads my WhatsApp or something I went for a run and complained to my wife about MEGACHAFFE and then I got targeted ads for special shorts. FO,M
I can say, without a shadow of a doubt that this has happened to me many times. Was at an airport last year and when I go on holiday I like to read about things that wouldn’t normally interest me; So was talking to my friend about what magazine to get and I said “car magazine” out loud probably like 3 or 4 times, decided to buy it and paid using cash. About 10 minutes later open and refresh instagram and the first ad that came up was an ad for a car magazine. You can see it didn’t have that many likes so it was clearly targeted very specifically for me, and keep in mind I never normally buy magazines and never search or read about cars. Spooky stuff man.
You don’t need to be connected to your boss on Facebook. If you have her phone number on your phone, or you’ve connected to work’s wifi, or you have locations enabled on your phone and you work in the same building, or have talked to them through WhatsApp, or anything even vaguely similar, there’s enough of a link for ads to be directed to you.
no chance its understanding my accent/mumbling.
“Siri, can you hear what I’m saying?”
I have her number but only txt to say im ill or late. So it is a very week link but I see what your saying.
I know the computer experts/ co conspirators will say phones don’t have enough CPU power - stupid globe heads will believe anyhting
Googled something on my work computer and had adverts for it all over instagram on my phonr after. I am logged into Facebook on Chrome on my work computer but didn’t have it open.
Wasn’t my phone listening to me though obv
Other thing to bear in mind is that sometimes if you’re shown an advert, it isn’t necessarily to sell something to you but to get you talking about it with someone else, who’ll be more likely to buy as a result.
(Digital marketing is a fucking disgusting business really.)
I was me who posted the original thread
It definitely feels like it happens a lot more often these days too
Is this why I keep getting adverts for willy shrinking pills?
Love it when they recommend or suggest you’ve already just bought. AI my arse.
We see you bought this sledgehammer
Perhaps you would also be interested in these sledghammers
No, no, no, you AI fool. I am literally the last person who now needs a sledghammer!
sometimes check the facebook thing that shows what it thinks you are into, it some how knows nothing about me, thinks I like sport and stuff, dunno if its because I use the ghostry blocker, but would have thought the phone would rat me out
Ah, there’s plenty of CPU, batteries would drain in minutes if they were doing that though.
