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People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you (www.uniladtech.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jorge@feddit.cl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It’s not even just that, humans a incredibly predictable and that predictability is able to be microtargeted based on trends and past activity of an individual.

I literally let years go by between buying shoes, no kidding. So I don't think that what you described would cover my specific case.

Especially out of the blue, and not shown ads for that at all before, and exactly around the same time when that discussion comes up in a moving vehicle.

(As an aside, and in case you're curious, when it comes time to buy new shoes, I usually buy two or three pairs of the same shoe, and then stick the other ones in the closet (usually buy at a really good sales price). Then when the first ones wear out I throw them away, and grab the next pair out of the closet.)

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[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You just described a pattern, though.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You just described a pattern, though.

From where I see it, there is no pattern of purchasing shoes there, unless you truly expect Google AI/servers to track you multi-years long (with the required CPU and storage requirements needed to do so), to establish an unique shoe purchasing pattern, instead of what they more likely are doing, which is looking at recent online and microphone activity.

AKA, Occam's Razor.

And also, how would Google know beforehand, that I will walk into a shoe store and buy shoes, if I didn't do any search for them ahead of time online?

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