Comment on Privacy: Breached
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Not as farfetched as you might think. I literally have to watch what I say and where I go that might be playing a loud enough audio program, because all of it gets me relevant advertisements almost word for word on the subjects my phone has been in the vicinity of. Has happened way too often to be coincidence.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The funny thing is that the industry seems to float an even worse explanation than them actively listening: they already know what you’re going to be interested in based on usage patterns, and can figure out that you’ll be talking about those things approximately when you’re doing so. As such they show ads.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Not entirely true for me simply because of media saturation. For instance there is more sports programming on air and online of which I have no interest in yet the news aggregators that I read often are flooded with the stuff despite my consistent attempts at removing it from my feeda
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah I’m not saying that their explanation is entirel truthful. Just that it’s really fucking weird how they seem to believe that explanation to be less dystopian.