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0 pointsrightbyte5mo ago0 comments

> Everyone realizes that the ads they're seeing are targeted.

Really? It took me until like 2012-2013 to realize Google searches stalked me to other websites.

Then again much critics at that time of big tech was disregarded as lunatic crackpots. And nowadays your are a crackpot if you claim they are not spying on you. I guess that matters.

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arethuza5mo ago

When I watch YouTube on an Apple TV the ads seem slightly relevant - when I watch on a mobile device they are completely awful, literally no idea why I'm being shown most of them.

gbalduzzi5mo ago

You probably disabled some privacy settings on your mobile (or you are not logged in with your user).

arethuza5mo ago

Definitely logged in using the same account.

tedggh5mo ago

It’s pretty obvious ads are targeted everywhere today, you search for Adidas running shoes and you expect to see running shoes ads in YouTube, Instagram, Amazon and pretty much every single platform with an ad revenue model. It’s not a subtle, subliminal thing buried into text nudging you into buying shoes, but very evident, pretty much your exact search query transformed into highly visual content. I would be shocked if I know someone under 60 that does not know this.

sumeno5mo ago

If anything people overestimate the amount of tracking since the average person still thinks their phones are giving them ads based on what they say

tomrod5mo ago

Yeah, the incident rate of this occurring is pretty high for randomness only.

It's easier to expect that your phone is always listening (because it is) and sending that data to apps for advertising than to force app providers to open source their code and prove they aren't collecting data on what the phone mic picks up.

But maybe you have more insight on a single provider's application that has been thus accused than other people in the thread.

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0 pointsrightbyte5mo ago0 comments

> Everyone realizes that the ads they're seeing are targeted.

Really? It took me until like 2012-2013 to realize Google searches stalked me to other websites.

Then again much critics at that time of big tech was disregarded as lunatic crackpots. And nowadays your are a crackpot if you claim they are not spying on you. I guess that matters.

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arethuza5mo ago

When I watch YouTube on an Apple TV the ads seem slightly relevant - when I watch on a mobile device they are completely awful, literally no idea why I'm being shown most of them.

gbalduzzi5mo ago

You probably disabled some privacy settings on your mobile (or you are not logged in with your user).

arethuza5mo ago

Definitely logged in using the same account.

tedggh5mo ago

sumeno5mo ago

If anything people overestimate the amount of tracking since the average person still thinks their phones are giving them ads based on what they say

tomrod5mo ago

Yeah, the incident rate of this occurring is pretty high for randomness only.

But maybe you have more insight on a single provider's application that has been thus accused than other people in the thread.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse