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>All things which have no relevance to me For the past 6 months, every single ad on Youtube (TV app) for me is about Indians singing something in Hindi... I wo
by kgeist 5y ago
>All things which have no relevance to me
For the past 6 months, every single ad on Youtube (TV app) for me is about Indians singing something in Hindi... I wonder why that happens. I'm not Indian, I don't understand Hindi, and I'm not interested in Indian pop music. Yet Youtube thinks I'm a huge fan and I have no idea what to do about it.
- rolleiflex 5y agoHave you by any chance sold any Android phones you used to own at one point? Google I think does associative linking based on phones. If your phone eventually found its way to India, Google might have started to think something similar. This happened to me personally, except I was both of the people in the exchange, that’s how I know.
- freeflight 5y agoWow, that sounds interesting and slightly disturbing. A bit like my experience with a friends Android phone, cross-referencing data from the contacts app to associate e-mail addresses with phone numbers on Google services. There must be a whole bunch of systems like this, that are never surfaced to the public except trough these occasional glitches in the Matrix that only very few people actually recognize.