Post #3483564

2026-06-23 00:07 UTC

That's been happening for well over a decade now, and while "respectable security researchers" call it bullshit... there's simply too much anecdotal evidence for it to happen organically.

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@meejle@piefed.world 2026-06-23 00:13

I always wonder whether we’re getting it backwards. Like, did you see ads for kayaks because you had that conversation about kayaking, or did you have the conversation because an ad company/social network decided it was time for you to get into kayaking?

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@tempest@lemmy.ca 2026-06-23 00:40

The reality is they don’t need to listen. They have so much data on users. how old you are where you are what you last bought when you just bought it who you are near what they bought what the people around you are searching and what ads they are seeing what is being bought and sold by everyone around you when you sleep what you eat the things you are chatting about on MMS where you go when you’re home and when and where you work It just goes on and on and on. People think they are unique but they are not as unique as they think.

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