I have posted on this topic earlier as well but I was shrugged off by Fb employees and some self-proclaimed smartpants from other companies who tried to explain to me how targeted advertisement works through cookies etc. I was talking to a friend who works in Microsoft about one of Microsoft’s headphones and how they compete with Bose, Apple etc. During the conversation my friend fleetingly mentioned “Jabra” too. And I know this, no one, neither me nor my friend, Googled about Jabra or any other headphones (I confirmed with my friend that they didn’t Google about it). One hour later I get a Jabra ad on Instagram. I just don’t buy the idea of targeted ad or some crazy graph algo which would somehow target me. Thoughts?
A big middle finger to anyone who says Google isn’t spying on us!
I understand ad targeting very well and am 99% sure Facebook is listening. There is no way their algorithm is that good . Someone at FB please confirm.
You think someone who is on Blind would be smart enough to be allowed to work on one of those teams?
If anything, I don’t think anyone would confirm it. They know they can be tracked down and maybe lose their jobs.
This happens to me very often. I even stopped paying attention to it. Happened on multiple occasions with different items from food to tech items. I find it very disturbing and wonder why it is legal 🤷♀️
Why does it matter? If you don't like the ads just dont click on it. This obsession about not being tracked is harmful in the long run
I don’t want anyone to be eavesdropping on my private conversations. I can’t believe all of you guys there are brainwashed to think this is OK.
Harmful "to Facebook's revenue " in the long run *
Sometimes someone mentions something over a whatsapp conversation and minutes later youtube suggests a related video. I get the whatsapp-to-facebook path, but whatsapp-to-youtube? Aren’t FB and GOOG two different companies?
Which online service did you use to talk to your friend?
Me too, have several times noticed some articles/adds show up to me on Facebook thread after I had done live conversation on the topic. Absolutely sure I was not googling these things.
Reminds me of the time I talked about Eminem with my wife. We had to watch M&M ads for 2 weeks afterwards
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Click the carrot and select "why am I seeing this." No one is listening to you.
I've had similar experience for ads showing up related to my WhatsApp conversations. It shouldn't happen since it's E2E, but it has happened randkng from movies to products you name it. @op : were you in conversation in real life or over the internet?
On my phone, video call. When she mentioned Jabra, I just said “oh wow, it’s been a long time I heard Jabra’s name”.