A few years ago I was telling a friend I wanted to get a small white van for my business. It just came up in conversation—I never searched for ANY vehicles—but sure enough, I started getting ads for white suvs. White ones, specifically.
The other day I was describing a book I've been reading for the last two weeks to my wife (Freedom's Dominion, about Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Era).
Despite reading only memoirs written by women, she got served an ad for it 5 minutes later. 🙃
I know it seems like “they” are listening, but 1) it would be easy to tell if it were true and 2) they have way more efficient ways of figuring us out :)
The thing with the alternate explanations is that people think this is downplaying but it's actually even more frightening how they get such perfect ads to you.
One time I saw a car with Georgia plates (which have the county of registration on the plate) and I said to my partner that “x is a stupid name for a county”
I opened TikTok a few minutes later for the first TikTok to be “that moment when you live in x county”
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I don’t trust technology.
Despite reading only memoirs written by women, she got served an ad for it 5 minutes later. 🙃
I opened TikTok a few minutes later for the first TikTok to be “that moment when you live in x county”
Not even a conspiracy theory really