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There's another possibility: Your friend searched for it or read articles about it @ office. You two share the same geolocation and IP address @ office. Facebo
by dotmanish 9y ago
There's another possibility:
Your friend searched for it or read articles about it @ office.
You two share the same geolocation and IP address @ office.
Facebook figured out you might be interested in the same topics as what others in your office are searching for.
Facebook shows you potentially related articles @ home.
No audio listening required.
I'd be surprised if Facebook Product Managers haven't been doing the above. This is basic.
- samblr 9y ago+1 for this. Our devices, networks, graphs(social-and-contacts and graphs-of-graphs(-of-graphs..)), its click, scrolls, likes, visits, (+ fwe millions variables) are input to a deep-learning neural-network whoose end-goal is we-know-it. A person's participation on internet is more like theme of movie Inception. Although dream state can be equated being on internet :)
- Spooky23 9y agoI don't know why in these threads people always go to great lengths to discount the possibility of this happening. Facebook A/B tests all sorts of stuff, all of the time. I had 2 or 3 incidents like this happen until a year ago when I eliminated use of their app for good. When Facebook addressed this question last year, the answer was: "[Facebook] does not use your phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed". That's not a denial.