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Do you believe we are being listened to?

I always found it weird that when I brought up a specific item or an old episode of a show and an ad would soon appear for the same specific thing on social media.
BlueVeins · 22-25
I find it more likely that the social media site was able to pick up your demographics based on the people you follow, ascertain your mood from the content you were viewing at the moment, and match those two items to a TV show you'd likely be thinking about.
xixgun · M
Of course we are. If not our voices then our words. Every sentence we type here and elsewhere, not to mention our emails and texts, are all diligently studied for anything that may make us spend a dollar.
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
@xixgun That is because we made Google this big. It may be used against us too.
xixgun · M
@TheOrionbeltseeker "We"? I don't recall being asked, or paid, for any part of Google.
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
@xixgun Sorry mate, maybe I am just out of my mind or something.

Our android system is Google based. There is a whole chain of network. Whatever you watch on YouTube gets sorted out and the suggestions of the youtube video are the live example of this very thing. Even Google asks you to remember the password for you to make ease the next time you will log in. If I ask you your password, hiw would it be like? Even though it is AI collecting data but you can be accessed anytime.
purplepen · 51-55, F
The Internet is set up that way for marketing.
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
@purplepen if it is only marketing then why are army officers not allowed to have Alexa at their home and in their environment?
purplepen · 51-55, F
@TheOrionbeltseeker Because it could also be used for tracking and stalking.
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
We are being tracked. We use Google and it keeps informations like what do we like, what activities we are in, when do we sleep and everything.

That's why I prefer socialism over capitalism because if it were socialism then perhaps there was no one to monitor us 24*7. It gives me the feeling that I am being followed, I am being monitored.
raysam363 · 31-35, F
That's just marketing. Tv shows play ads relevant to their expected viewerbase, online ads track you to post targeted ads.
WeighedDown · 36-40, M
You're unintentionally psychic
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Lostpoet · M
Its smart tv's

 
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