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Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (www.404media.co)

submitted 10 months ago by minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Anecdotally, the odds are near zero that my wife and I can talk once about maybe buying some obscure thing like electric blinds and suddenly targetted ads for them somehow pop up on our devices.

This happens a lot.

I think you're being naive if you believe they don't locally distill our discussions into key words and phrases and transmit those.

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Confirmation bias — people unconsciously prefer remembering things supporting their beliefs.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You are assuming he had the belief before the events when it could be the events creating the belief.