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Okay this was weird. I know whenever I look online for various products I will see ads pop up when I go to FB or wherever. Obvious they are following my searches
So the other day a Milwaukee saw takes a shit on the job. I of course bitch and saw stuff like “you would think buying a top of the line Milwaukee it would last longer than 6 months” with some other choice words thrown in.
So the next day I’m on FB and on my news feed I see ad for the exact saw that broke. I swear I didn’t go on any website to look for one. My son in law said the phone is listening and picking up keywords. It makes sense....how else would it have known?
Anyone know about this? I’m thinking about testing it out at work tomorrow and mentioning another brand and needing to buy a new one and see if another ad pops up. And no...I’m not crazy...yet
So the other day a Milwaukee saw takes a shit on the job. I of course bitch and saw stuff like “you would think buying a top of the line Milwaukee it would last longer than 6 months” with some other choice words thrown in.
So the next day I’m on FB and on my news feed I see ad for the exact saw that broke. I swear I didn’t go on any website to look for one. My son in law said the phone is listening and picking up keywords. It makes sense....how else would it have known?
Anyone know about this? I’m thinking about testing it out at work tomorrow and mentioning another brand and needing to buy a new one and see if another ad pops up. And no...I’m not crazy...yet
As far as that saw... imo milwaukee has gone downhill. Made in China and it shows.
Have seen this multiple times. Test it out tomorrow, at some point even if you have to talk to your self starting talking about something that you for sure haven't searched for ever. Leave it in your pocket and see what happens.
The Shop
I 100% guarantee they played this add for you a dozen times already (based on your search history) but it wasn't until the ad meant something to you did you hear it / see it.
Phones, internet, it's all spying on you one way or another.
Go capitalism!
In my 15 years in advertising (at some of the highest level agencies) I've never been involved in a meeting that "spying on people through their microphone" was discussed as an actual marketing strategy because the ramifications for getting caught doing so would be incredibly damaging to the brand doing it. Again, not saying it doesn't happen but given the amount of data everyone already has on you, and the 20 years of creating target specific algorithms, they do a scary good job targeting you without your microphone... the secret is they target you, and people like you, THEN bombard the shit out of you with endless ads in hopes of catching you at the moment it will stick. So while you might not need a specific tool the data you're lumped with means other people just like you do... and thus they assume you need it as well.
Just think about it, how often does what you're saying around your phone line up perfectly with an ad presented to you? Personally I have one of those moments maybe once every 6 months. Now given the fact that we see an estimated 4,000 - 20,000 ads a day that means their hit rate per six months could be somewhere between 1 out of 720,000 to 1 out of 3.6 million.
One would think that if they were spying on you that much through your microphone that you would notice the connection more often, right?
This is also assuming you can remember everything you've ever searched for the entirety of being on the internet, other ads you've clicked, sites you've specifically visited, etc.
And people can 100% be told what to do subconsciously, why do you think food logos are red and yellow? Why do you think car logos are blue? Why do you think companies in the United States spend upwards of $220 billion dollars a year? It's all about laying a foundation that will have you thinking about their brand first when the first thoughts of "I need" enter your mind.
“There are many problems today with the Digital Advertising Ecosystems – profiling and tracking of internet users, increasing concentration of providers (Google and Facebook), the loss of support for editorial content, discriminatory practices and redlining, preferencing the advertiser’s products over competitor’s, and political ads purchased by foreign advertisers intended [to] undermine democratic elections.
"Two companies dominate the market. The privacy of internet users is under assault. The revenue model that sustained journalism is broken. The ad platforms are manipulated by foreign adversaries. Secrecy and complexity are increasing as accountability is diminished,”...
“Today’s digital advertising techniques are very different from traditional advertising models. In the analog world, consumers could readily identify the placement of an ad, the source and its purpose. There was little need for advertisers to gather personal data from users. Perhaps most critically, advertising supported editorial content. Advertising made possible the publication of daily news. Traditional advertising sustained a healthy ecosystem that also made possible the production of news without government subsidy. Much of that has changed,”
https://epic.org/testimony/congress/EPIC-HEC-DigitalAdvertising-June201…
Now I’m not saying 100% that the Milwaukee saw ad was never there before, but I’m pretty sure it wasnt
I believe with my uninformed pea-brain with no concrete evidence whatsoever that mic is constantly data basing everything we say, at all times. Maybe it's paranoia, maybe it's Maybelline, maybe it's just the NSA and we can ask Bill Binney if any of this is possible
Pit Row
That is why it kinda freaked me out....I told my wife the phone is reading my mind. When my son in law said the microphone is on and picking up keywords it made some sense
https://m.vitalmx.com/forums/Non-Moto,21/Is-your-phone-spying-on-you,13…
we have one in the kitchen and one in the living room. every now and then that bitch will speak up and start giving information about the shit we're talking about, even when we don't ask her to or command her.
What bothers me more is that if you google search a persons name you pretty much get their address laid out there right in front of you.
I’ve only really noticed this with internet searches and Facebook( deleted FB, and turned off my internet ad based off searches and location based ads)
I turned mine off but it probably still tracks it
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