You know these algorithms are designed for predictive advertisement based off your previous activity. What is likely going on is this:
10,000 users who searched these terms also decided to search or want this “thing” next.
“Woah, it’s reading my mind! How did it know I was thinking about that?!”
It’s funny, nobody pays attention when the algorithm guesses wrong, we only notice it when it’s freakishly accurate.
Certain products use algorithms that predict you’re going to stop using it before you’re even aware. This can trigger things to sent you emails, etc with some perk.
Except when it’s YouTube recommendations, then they only pay attention when it’s wrong and not when it’s right.
What, you don’t want right wing misinformation shoved down your throat constantly despite reporting it every time you see it?
As if YouTube would ever get it right.
And that makes it better?
No, but confirmation bias is a real thing.
Bingo. This one gets it.
Absolutely, but understanding that doesn’t make it any less creepy.
You can fight this you know. There are a lot of great YouTube video tutorials by MentalOutlaw that will help you tighten down your security settings and make it more difficult to identify and track you across the internet.
Does this come at a high cost of convenience? Absolutely. Most of my security settings break websites by default since I restrict all 3rd party apps and JavaScript. It takes me a good couple minutes to play around and see what is causing the issue.
If I can’t figure out how read your site without handing over a bunch of access, I move to the 2nd or 3rd site that usually gives me what I want without changing any settings at all.
No, it helps you understand what it actually is so you can think of solutions based on information instead of fear.
Understanding what is real is the first step to controlling what controls you
Something something adblock
that doesn’t prevent them from spying tho
Very true. I was more just predicting what inevitable gets said with posts like these.
You get ads about things you have photographed. If you give Facebook image access, it will scan ALL of your photos locally. I had some photos of couches it started giving me ads for them.
Oh that explains the penis enlargement pills…
Lmao
It’s 9am in morning, it’s too early for this shit!?! Let’s just call it a coincidence. I’m going back to sleep, they can’t get to you in your dreams.
Not yet.
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Given all my adblockers, getting ads at all is what scares me
Yesterday my ublock failed me and I had to watch a full 5 seconds of ads for 3 times! Fortunately it seems to work after updating filters now
See, that right there is true horror.
Yeah, Idk why but ublock auto-nuked the filters I entered (that nice custom filter from Tumblr), i didn’t notice but I did after the satanic torture by yt (15 secs of ads I won’t get back) I fortunately went on the dashboard and noticed my filters weren’t there, immediately re-pasted them.
Stop accepting ads in your life, ffs. What is it with people and steadfastly refusing to install an adblock? Are you stupid?
I don’t care. I’m not worried about it. It’s not that important. I’m not refusing, I’m just not giving two fucks about it. Why are you so militant about people doing the same thing as you do?
Sometimes it’s the TV, and then I blame Jesus for stalking.
jesus sus, man
What’s a TV?
They either don’t know adblock exists or are listening to YouTubers like Linus, who claim that blocking ads on their videos is “stealing”
That doesn’t scare me, because I know full well that neuroscience is nowhere near advanced enough to read minds.
When that day comes, however…
we’re getting close pretty fast. AI is accelerating things very quickly. I’d be willing to bet that millitary is researching this without announcing it.
Fear not though:
Jerry Tang, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author, said: “We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that. We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.”
they’re taking it seriously
My head isn’t inside an fMRI machine, nor is my phone connected to one, so they still can’t read my mind with my phone.
Fear not though:
Jerry Tang, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin and a co-author, said: “We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that. We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.”
they’re taking it seriously
Yeah, that’s not even remotely reassuring. The instant it becomes feasible to read minds on a large scale, it will be immediately put to use for government surveillance and commercial exploitation. No one will give a single [expletive] about the objections of some college students. My only hope is to be dead before then.
thats kind of how I feel about it as well
Neuroscience, not yet. Data science absolutely is though.
I haven’t seen ads in years lol. I’m very aggressively adblocked on every layer possible. Even down to setting my router to use an adblocker dns as a final protection layer.
No ads
Fuck, forgot to seal the kilograms of coke in my luggage.
Drugs: tricking Americans into conditional use of a sane system since the 60s!
The real reason drugs are illegal: they need to figure out new methods for secret agencies to smuggle items.
Getting doored while out riding, then falling into the road and getting run over by a garbage truck.
I ride my bike a lot. Somebody getting out of the back seat of a 4 door with out looking is a huge danger.
I don’t know why the USA doesn’t just put bike lanes in the side walks
The US can barely even put sidewalks where it’s convenient. I have very little hope for our local governments to add bike lanes to it.
This was my experience visiting some city outskirts of chicago, no sidewalk, just car lanes, or abrupt ditch. you had to drive from the hotel plaza on one side of road to get to the food plaza on the other side. like whomever developed that setup was a moron.
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What’s really gonna bake your noodle later is if you’d have thought about that thing at all if it wasn’t something they were advertising…
you get ads
no i dont
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