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Was listening to Gorillaz last night via youtube. When the song 'Humility' was playing Mrs Rider commented about George Benson's involvement, which I wasnt aware of. We had a brief discussion about it. Logged onto fb this morning to see a George Benson ad. A George Benson ad! Obv youtube - Chrome - fb. But it was the conversation I remembered, so it triggers a switch in your head to think you were 'overheard'.
Cahoots aboot the hoose. So where're the ads for Frank Zappa box sets? I've been mainlining Zappa some nights for 3 hours straight.
I'd be surprised if apps could bypass the security controls on what's allowed to access the phone mic so I'd start there. Sure the intelligence agencies have had hacks in the past (and likely still do) but that's different. Mine's limited to Shazam at the moment, if you have any games/apps that have access then remove them as some use listening software to help with targeted ads (scanning background noise, google Alphonso for an example).
...my father in law read out from a newspaper that flights were available form Bristol to Tokyo now via KLM. About 30 minutes later this then popped up in my Facebook feed.
You got an ad related to a current news story, both of which were presumably linked to a press release and publicity campaign run by KLM? That doesn't sound like a huge coincidence.
Facebook et al can do this stuff by linking up the data they already have, without doing any covert surveillance. For example, if you use a loyalty card, supermarkets can make an estimate of how many people live in your house, by counting how many toilet rolls you buy.
Facebook will do whatever it can, and whatever it can get away with, to make $$$.
I removed my account and deleted the app, but I have noticed adverts similarly remarkably closely related to recent conversations, rather than internet searches (which is bad enough IMO) from Amazon.
The weirdest thing I've experienced is that next to my desk I have a carved object brought back from India. The other day I was using the Amazon app, and suddenly started seeing ads for identical objects. I draw no conclusion from that, but it seemed like a very large coincidence to me and gave me the creeps.
Something is definitely going on!
Scary stuff, cos if my data is being collected, I dunno what they're doing with it, cos I do not see any ads at all. Maybe I should, so I know what to keep quiet about.