I noticed many times that I’ve got an ad for something I might have said ( example: Target) while not using Facebook or instagram. After a while, I’ve got an ad for Target on Instagram or Facebook which I previously never got. So I decided to test this further and deliberately said Toyota to my phone in a sentence that “I’m thinking to buy a car, preferably a Toyota”. And I’m 100% certain I have never got an ad for Toyota. A day later I check Instagram, I get an ad for Toyota. So creepy.
Car companies advertise heavily on FB. When I search for cars in general, I get car ads on fb. It’s a car company roulette. Volkswagen/Audi, Toyota/Lexus are the two companies that I just see no matter what car i search for.
Yes, I’ve noticed that on searches. And that I understand. But constantly listening to what you are talking with your friends and making sense out of it to show you ads is just another level
I don’t think they listen to you. I think you did a car search somewhere and you were served a Toyota ad by coincidence.
Wow, such science. Have you tried getting this published in an academic journal? Very, very enlightening and interesting stuff.
Can you clarify how exactly you “said Toyota to your phone”?
My wife and her friends were suspecting of this as well. They never typed or searched but the ads they talked about show up in Instagram. Her iPhone has turned off the microphone access for Insta and FB. What I guess is there might be other apps which required access to microphone and collected voice data which was sent to a third party which Insta and FB use to show ads. FB and Instagram can claim they never used this information but they may be using it with or without knowing it via third party tools. This might be a reason why Tim Cook warned about underground data market. They probably know about this to some degree.
Ads are based on user behavior on the web. Did they click on similar ads? See how google Adsense works. Users can’t even recall what they searched for in the last hour.
Which voice apps did your wife and her friends use?
This whole thread.
lmao I’d expect this of morons in non-tech but can’t believe seemingly educated ppl here still buy into this “FB is listening!11!” thing
He’s from pandora, give him a little less credit Same company that was losing millions not detecting users who just left the browser playing music open while out of the house
Think about all the bugs in iPhone and Android. We had Facetime exposing conversations without accepting the call. There could have been many such.
Lmao. I work on ads op. If ad companies had this tech, there would be a ton of non ad products using this tech too. OP, as a thought exercise design a system that does this. End to end. Then post here for results. I really want to know how you think this works.
Wait till you see the ads you’re gonna get after this thread!!!
Yeah so delete FB.
Already did, mate. Cheers