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Reading all the creepy anecdotes in the thread ... Possibility 1 : Facebook is snooping on your conversations. Possibility 2: Their machine learning algorithm
by thewarrior 11y ago
Reading all the creepy anecdotes in the thread ...
Possibility 1 :
Facebook is snooping on your conversations.
Possibility 2:
Their machine learning algorithms are getting creepily good at predicting your wants and needs.
Both are scary.
- shalmanese 11y agoPossibility 3: With a large enough userbase, all sorts of crazy co-incidences happen. If 1.4 billion users login every day, 1 in a million co-incidences happen once a minute.
- thewarrior 11y agoI concede but only upto a point. Do go to the thread read all the crazy coincidences :P . Their targeting is definitely improving.
- tedunangst 11y agoConfirmation bias? How many times was the author shown ads for exterminators before this incident but paid them no attention?