It’s really quite interesting how topics I’ve spoken about but not looked up online have become the subject of advertisements appearing for me, despite having privacy settings generally hardened on everything, and hitting “ask app to not track” on every opportunity.

@maddy I always wonder how much that happens because someone you were talking too looked it up online and they know you two are linked?

Creepy across the board.

@bearmine confirmed with my partner that they never looked into it online themselves. Very sussy

@maddy The other extremely very crazy depression possibility is they were able to determine from your other behavior that you were interested in that.

Like the famous example of companies knowing someone is pregnant before they do.

Or they're listening... which is just as bad.

It all bad all the way down.

@maddy This is why I don't want to do Data Engineering anymore. This and AI...

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It's almost as if all of those settings are just a placebo. 😡

@bearmine @maddy you could try to check if they're listening or just good at predicting what you're interested in by talking about some random thing you're completely uninterested in to see if you start getting ads about it