One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …

Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it’s being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don’t trust plenty of others, and apple still does

  • @AlwaysnownevernotmeEnglish
    8•3 days ago

    Quick experiment. If you don’t own a dog or a cat, talk about buying dog or cat food a couple times today.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•3 days ago

      about buying dog or cat food a couple times today.

      I have both, also, if it’s real, you’d have to match up with an advertiser that really wants your profile.

      I search for crap all the time but don’t get ads most of the time, then one time, I look up this one kaz air filter and get nothing but ads for it for a week. hundreds of home depot ads.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•3 days ago

          My big problem isn’t with the concept I could talk about buying parrot food.

          But there has to be a vendor out there that says hey whoever I’m buying this data from, I need to put an ad in front of parrot owners.

          These are going to be very high cost ads, so whatever products they’re going to sell you probably have a respectable profit margin or respectable expected lifetime value.

          Trying to trigger it on purpose, without any idea of who’s advertising or for what is somewhat of a fool’s errand.