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I keep being told this is a conspiracy and that several people checked on this and found no evidence of them spying on you, but I still have a hard time believi

I keep being told this is a conspiracy and that several people checked on this and found no evidence of them spying on you, but I still have a hard time believing they're not doing something really sketchy. The case that was the final straw for me was when I was chatting with my partner and remembered a funny song from my childhood, so I opened YouTube on Safari and showed it to her. A couple of minutes later, she opens Instagram (on her own phone) and the first "follow suggestion" is the artist from the song. She had never heard of this song before, much less of the artist (which is not famous at all). I would understand if everything happened on my phone/accounts, but the suggestion was on her phone and account. I don't think they're literally listening to you, but there's definitely a GPS-based user relationship table somewhere which reflects what you do to everyone they think has some connection to you and is physically close to you.

siilats 4y ago
You are both on same wifi
- propogandist 4y ago
  Just because they’re on the same wifi doesn’t mean FB gets to break the SSL connection between OP’s (separate) client and YT to snoop on details of the video being played, to then suggest actions on their, competing IG platform, on a separate device.
rrdharan 4y ago
Pretty sure this can be explained without GPS, if you were both using the same internet connection (e.g. home WiFi NAT’ed through the same IP from your ISO).
lnauta 4y ago
The reply all podcast has a nice episode on this, #109. Whether your phone is listening to your conversations. They conclude that ads are shown to people you know. So you search for a product and then your partner gets ads for this product too, as they know you spend a lot of time together through other tracking methods.
aembleton 4y ago
> definitely a GPS-based user relationship table somewhere which reflects what you do to everyone they think has some connection to you I've seen this when I am sharing IP addresses with someone because we're both connected to the same WiFi. Especially if you block meta from being able to get any data about you but the other person doesn't. Meta then get data from that other person because it can't see anything from yourself. It helps when I'm looking for a gift for my partner - I can see what she's been looking at recently because its most of my adverts in Facebook.

siilats 4y ago

You are both on same wifi

propogandist 4y ago
Just because they’re on the same wifi doesn’t mean FB gets to break the SSL connection between OP’s (separate) client and YT to snoop on details of the video being played, to then suggest actions on their, competing IG platform, on a separate device.

rrdharan 4y ago

Pretty sure this can be explained without GPS, if you were both using the same internet connection (e.g. home WiFi NAT’ed through the same IP from your ISO).

lnauta 4y ago

The reply all podcast has a nice episode on this, #109. Whether your phone is listening to your conversations. They conclude that ads are shown to people you know. So you search for a product and then your partner gets ads for this product too, as they know you spend a lot of time together through other tracking methods.

aembleton 4y ago

> definitely a GPS-based user relationship table somewhere which reflects what you do to everyone they think has some connection to you I've seen this when I am sharing IP addresses with someone because we're both connected to the same WiFi. Especially if you block meta from being able to get any data about you but the other person doesn't. Meta then get data from that other person because it can't see anything from yourself. It helps when I'm looking for a gift for my partner - I can see what she's been looking at recently because its most of my adverts in Facebook.