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Sometimes when I'm planning to buy something. I'm sure I haven't searched about them, and just talked with my friend verbally. Few hours later, ads shows in my
by quyleanh 6y ago
Sometimes when I'm planning to buy something. I'm sure I haven't searched about them, and just talked with my friend verbally. Few hours later, ads shows in my feeds. I ask my friend about this, many of them confirm and still don't know what happened.
- pknopf 6y agoSame here. Multiple times. Not a coincidence. I don't know how, but there has to be something going on there.
- belltaco 6y agoI wonder if anyone has done a controlled experiment where you talk about completely random things and see if they show up in ads.
- gregable 6y agoI've seen instances of this before, but never one that couldn't possibly be explained in any other way. For example, getting an ad for an HBO show that I talked about. Well, HBO is pushing said show among my demographic, could easily be a coincidence.
- tylermenezes 6y agoI started getting tons of ads for elder law immediately after I started watching Better Call Saul. I watched them on VLC on Arch Linux and _acquired_ the files over a year earlier. I hadn't Googled it, visited any related pages or posted about watching it. A little while after I uninstalled the Facebook app they stopped. I was very much on the "there must be another explanation" train, especially since it should be possible to notice a ton of bandwidth if they were streaming conversation audio. But I've really never been able to figure that one out. If you've got an explanation for me I'd be really interested.
- belltaco 6y agoWhat if your friend happened to search for that item afterwards? And FB made the connection because you were friends and it detected that your locations were in close proximity.