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On a related note, I had a weird experience where I was talking about a trip to Vietnam with my friends. A few hours later, I saw an ad for air travel to Vietna
by mrhektor 9y ago
On a related note, I had a weird experience where I was talking about a trip to Vietnam with my friends. A few hours later, I saw an ad for air travel to Vietnam on my FB page.
Now I'm 100% sure I hadn't googled or searched for Vietnam previously. At first, the conspiracy theorist inside said "they're listening!" through my phone microphone or whatever. But then, I thought, could they have been forming a pattern of my behaviour over the past several days, cross-referenced across several platforms (maybe I had searched for "Travel destinations" and also a friend had given a travel recommendation of Vietnam on chat)? Have the algorithms gotten that advanced?
- 0xcde4c3db 9y ago> Now I'm 100% sure I hadn't googled or searched for Vietnam previously. I'll bet your friends did.
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- sumedh 9y agoWhen you say talking do you mean you guys were physically close to each other then if your friends searched for Vietnam, FB will know that this group of people whose current GPS coordinates are the almost the same are interested in Vietnam.