This board's obsession with BiffTannen continues.
so juice tell me more about how your phone needs to listen to your conversation to serve you targeted ads.
lately I've been getting a lot of IG ads for breweries I've never heard of. but they aren't general ads telling you to visit the brewery in whatever city. it'll just be a random post as if you already follow-them and know who they are. like "It's Tuesday night! Stop in for $3 pints of blah blah IPA."
Exact same for me. And they are always in strange locations that I’ve never been to before. So weird.
It's plausible, but the real answer is we don't know. I'm probably a bit biased since I'm really restrictive about data privacy settings and I've never seen an ad that made me think the phone is listening to me.
The scope and power of (Facebook, for example) ad algorithms are (still!) dramatically underexamined, underappreciated, and underrated though. So I think it's more likely that the force of the algorithm is shocking people at key moments into coming up with an explanation they don't have.
okay, here is my question: if you get one type of bagel (same type for every bakery/grocery store/deli/etc., not picking one shop) for the rest of your life, is anyone not picking everything bagel?
I'm the opposite on privacy settings: just run with the default which I assume is the least private, not a best-practice, I imagine, but I'm ignorant and lazy