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I'm glad they convinced me to turn my mattress purchase into a mattress collection.
This article about a person who bought an urn online is hilarious. Amazon thinks I'm a serial killer now (cracked dot com)
Where is this original meme from? Bleach?
Been thinking, this is a common trope in anime (using glasses/other objects to try to hear through a barrier), does this actually work?
But good luck getting anyone to sell you a dildo.
You must never imply ownership of the dildo.
also, using Google to search for a term/subject while watching a YouTube video that mentioned it
I searched the first four generic characters of something I'd never searched before, and the full subject popped right up as the suggestion
either the phone is listening, or they're cataloguing video content subjects. either way, building tons of data points on you
Remember when people used to think we were crazy regarding advertising based on speech secretly recorded?
I do this fun thing I've dubbed the "platypus test" to show people how crazy it is. If you open Instagram and scroll through reels while talking gibberish adding the word platypus every now and then you will eventually start seeing them in your feed. Its rather quick too, I managed to get results within 10 minutes.
I still think it's bogus unless I see clear proof of it. That would imply your Instagram app somehow needs to bypass the kernel which let's the system know when the microphone is being used (some OS let's you know when mic or app is accessed real-time). That seems like an awfully open backdoor to microphone access.
Go try it out and let me know your results. Just for context I'm using GrapheneOS. And yeah I know some hardware backdoor would seem paranoid but consider the reach of said company.
I have, repeatedly, because it's not the first time I hear of this, only once did something similar to what I was saying appeared. Sounds like a coincidence to me.
Happens a lot when you talk about burgers or pizza and you get an ad for whatever you're talking about.
You can say that's coincidence, and yes these chains do a lot of ads.
Then one day I'm looking at food to order (I have all the ad/tracking blockers) while my GF is on her laptop doing something completely different.
I mention how bad restaurant X is. (there's only one, not a chain)
And in 2 minutes she gets the ad for that particular restaurant.
Really, history has shown over and over that you can't trust tech companies.
I just need to buy my plane tickets for noodling about with no direction of specific importance. Be mad if there was a wedding there too wouldn't it
Tickets to MAD available right now! Live your best Spanish wedding!
... hyper-realistic bedazzled dildo
I dunno about bedazzeld, but ummm... 👀
Imagine how good it would look on your desk. The sack shining like two disco balls
Or you could hang it above the fireplace like that singing trout
And yet I can explicitly type the exact parameters for an item I'm looking for into Google or Amazon and I get flooded with bullshit that is not that thing.
Not until I finally buy something do I get floder with the right ads, at which point those ads are pointless.
For all the data they have on us they sure are pretty ass at utilizing it.
“Oh you’re looking for a red KitchenAid blender type # 5KSB2073EER? Great! Here’s that 4 CD set of traditional Turkmenistan folk music you wanted.”
I mean, one must admit that a 4 CD set of traditional Turkmenistan folk music does sound pretty sweet.
Sorry all these other companies paid us more to put their shit in front of your eyeballs than the one who sells the thing you want.
Amazon's primary revenue driver is selling the top spots in their search results. So it's no surprise that when you search for something, you almost never see what you're looking for. They have literally created a system that intentionally shows you what you're NOT looking for in order for them to make a profit.
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That's because what you're searching for is what you definitely want, so they know you're likely click/buy it. But if throw a bunch of crap that you maybe might want before you get to it, maybe you'll buy some of that too. It's like how supermarkets throw a bunch of junk food in a checkout lane, maybe you'll get tempted while you're forced to stand there even though you just wanted to buy laundry detergent.
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I tried getting directions to a restaurant from Google Maps yesterday and it routed me inefficiently through an intersection with a paid sponsor restaurant. This was the biggest enshittification of direction apps I’ve experienced. Not only did it give me worse directions, but what are the chances I need to stop at the paid restaurant when I am trying to get to another restaurant in 20 minutes?
what are the chances I need to stop at the paid restaurant when I am trying to get to another restaurant in 20 minutes?
That's not the purpose though. This puts this other restaurant in your head for some other time. You may think you're not actually affected by this tactic, but decades of research shows that, even when aware of this, it still fucking works.
So the only winning move is not to use Google
I've been looking for a new job. Now I get ads for jobs. That's actually nice, were it not that they're always the same five shitty jobs every time.
Those are the five shitty jobs that paid for advertising.
I wouldn't wakt to work for a company that recruits through advertising.
If they have to post paid ads to find new employees, you know they're an especially shitty employer. There's going to be a very good reason why they can't find (or keep) enough employees the normal way.
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If they have all this marketing intel about me why do they deluge me with ads for major appliances right after I buy them? I mean how likely am I gonna want another dishwasher the same week?
Because they get paid to send ads to people who might be interested in Dishwashers.
Google/Instagram/Whatever (generally) doesn't make money when you buy a dishwasher.
I don't believe they actually have the information that you bought the thing.
I don't see why not though - if they know which urls I visit, they should know about order confirmations. If companies are sharing all my browsing patterns why wouldn't they share what I bought?
As far as I know, Google and Facebook do not collect every single URL you visit. It wouldn't be impossible for Chrome to do this, but I think it would be public information because of the nature and volume of that information - even though efforts can be made to disguise what it collects. Facebook basically has no such ability because it collects information by having a little thing on each page, with the agreement of the page owner, and I don't think that thing receives any info from a successful sale (as opposed to "person browsed this product's page)
They don't have to collect them as in saving them, they just have to collect information about activity that would interest marketers who buy the data. "Searched for dishwashers"... "Ordered dishwasher"...
Then the marketers could process the data and go, Lovable Sidekick searched for dishwashers but didn't buy one, maybe he's still looking, let's send him ads for dishwashers. Or, Lovable Sidekick bought a dishwasher, let's not waste ad impressions showing him dishwasher ads, let's show ads for dishwasher detergent. I mean, if I were part of that whole circus that's how I would try to approach it.
I think them having all this info about you, is a way to get advertisers to pay them more for the targeted ads.
It's not to help you or the advertisers, but themselves.
And I assume not a single advertiser has gone up to them with a well grounded: "bruh, dafuq are you doing showing fridge ads to the guy that just bought a fridge from us... that's not what we are paying you for."
From the manufacturer's point of view all they see/hear from big tech is "these fridge ads are very effective, see this guy who bought a fridge as evidence."
I wish Google would put ~~so~~ all their ~~sitting~~ ~~soying~~ spying to ~~God~~ good ~~is~~ use to improve their text prediction on their ~~site~~ swipe input.
They already accomplished that, phones in like 16 had chips that were capable of doing it all on device without needing the cloud, which isn't profitable.
I've actually turned off my autocomplete lately. It's become too annoying.. I'd rather make "your fingers are too fat"-mistakes than all the "God" and "ducking" every time. People only have to understamd about 80% of the words you write in order to understand the message. Si, a swnwnve kike thud id not thw ens og the wprld.
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