Poll of the Day > How is it fb knows I got some brooks for my birthday when I never googled them

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but youtube won't stop recommending me Maroon 5 music videos? It's like they don't even know me at all

Prob the person that gifted you the brooks googled em or took some photos that fb recognised then id'd you in the same location with your bday data

youtube on the other hand doesn't care and wants you to watch their content that makes em money

maybe that love has taken it's toll on you - she said goodbye, too many times before.

How does one purchase a brook, let alone several of them? Also, happy birthday.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

How does one purchase a brook, let alone several of them? Also, happy birthday.

You can usually see it on your land title boundaries.

Lil_Bit83 posted...

How does one purchase a brook, let alone several of them? Also, happy birthday.

Thank you lol, it was last month. And brooks are nice athletic shoes

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.

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.

LonelyStoner posted...

Your phone mic is always open

Not everyone has a phone with a mic, and I've known some folks who block out their phones' mics to be on the safe side. Various media still know and corral without such a device.

Books was here

and so was read

Entity13 posted...

Not everyone has a phone with a mic, and I've known some folks who block out their phones' mics to be on the safe side. Various media still know and corral without such a device.

They can track your preferences even without a mic.

LonelyStoner posted...

They can track your preferences even without a mic.

Correct. Lots of things are easily tracked these days. Heck, just look at how Windows has been designed since 10 was released to know how it's basically glorified spyware.

Tiktok recs me without fail mental health videos everytime ive gone a few days without my antidepressants. Its kinda weird but at the same time kinda heartwarming that an ai somewhere is looking out for me

I feel like the algos are so good they can piece together things with what little info they have that would seem useless to anything but a massive billion dollar ml system

Like your finger strokes, your accelerometer movement, your google history, bam diagnosed with depression

The funny thing is that after all that ads still aren't a viable business model.

Entity13 posted...

Anyways, enjoy your brooks.

Thanks they're really comfortable. I'm very much a minimalist and tend to cheap out on shoes but I really shouldn't since I've had foot issues in the past due to flat feet. It was really thoughtful of my gf to get them for me.

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.

No I truly feel our phones spy on us for ads. I've simply talked to someone about a product I've never heard of and started getting ads for it. This had happened multiple times