My brother showed me this event's details on his phone. We briefly talked about this. I didn't search for it on my device. We share same Wifi. When I opened Instagram after 5-10 minutes, the first thing I saw was this ad. How does it work? - Location? - IP? - Internet history of all the devices connected in a network? - Listen to the conversation? - Coincidence? #misc #meta #facebook #instagram #advertisement #recommendation #google
are you both Indians?
Yes.
This is how posterior probability works. Sometimes it looks like magic. We are already extremely scrappy about resources, even if we wanted to, we can't afford to listen to conversation
Thanks, while I will read about posterior probability. I'm still wondering, how did you show me the ad just after the conversation? You could have waited till morning, no? 🤣 Like what factors might have been considered for showing the ad?
A lot of signals come much before you make the decisions. When you have billions of users, some patterns emerge. As much as we wish it to be, people are not that special on an individual level This sometimes makes it work like a magic or creepy, as you noticed
It’s just cookies and data being sold by third parties.
Wow, at this pace? Like just within 5-10 minutes, it's sold and Instagram showed ad also?
They’re sold automatically I.e, the data gets synced real time.
Maybe one of your friends searched for it - so you're within that radius of ads too. Happened several times.
Same wifi
Your brother searched from the same IP
Yesterday, I was shown an ad that I was solely thinking about !
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Listen to convo. Happened to me many times on cell service (no Wi-Fi)
You can still get location data on cell service..