It's getting harder for me not to think my thoughts aren't tracked by cookies (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Like, I keep seeing more and more ads about things I only thought about while not looking up anything online about it. For example: after I got out of the shower this morning I thought about how I needed to apply cream on my arms to prevent dry skin. It was only a thought that took me a few seconds. And minutes later I receive an ad on Instagram about dry skin.

I have never even googled dry skin. I didn't say anything about it to anyone lol. And I get the ad the day I think about it? These things keep happening more and more for some reason.

I know it's not possible and I promise I'm not going insane or anything, so don't lock me up lol. Just an observation.

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[-] AnxiousDuck@feddit.it 9 points 9 months ago

The thing is, ad companies don't even need to track your searches directly anymore. Maybe one of your friends googles something, they know you've been messaging as apps leak these metadata, or know you were at the same party days ago because maybe you left location access on, and bam! You get the ad because it's highly probable your friend told you about this interesting thing he found out...

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