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Entity13 posted...

You know? I have a disturbing . . . theory? Hypothesis? Anyways. It extends from the philosophy that roughly goes how people are culminations of their stimuli in life. In this idea of mine, people are influenced by their social media and services and guided by it like sheep to pay for things. Think advertising campaigns, but on drugs and in broader strokes.

The reason I bring this up is that perhaps fb doesn't so much know you received your gift despite you saying nothing, like it's spying on you, and more like it led whomever into getting you said gift. Meanwhile Youtube is trying to get you into Maroon 5 or at least think about or become familiar with them, because it either wants you or someone close to you to buy Maroon 5 music for yourself, oor it wants you to get their music for someone else you know, OR it knows Maroon 5 will annoy you so you will react a certain way when it does come up when you're minding your own business. In the latter case, you'd have almost a Clockwork Orange sort of conditioning that makes it harder to like something you would have liked, and whoops, now you're less interested in things the Youtube algorithm doesn't want you to like, so here's something else instead Youtube does want you to like.

I don't like this idea, and would like to be wrong.

Anyways, enjoy your brooks.

This isn't a theory. Your phone mic is always open and everything we do online is being constantly tracked, sold, and used. Every connection you have on social media, every account you've ever made, everything you've ever Googled. Privacy doesn't exist to the highest bidder.