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It's getting harder for me not to think my thoughts aren't tracked by cookies (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Like, I keep seeing more and more ads about things I only thought about while not looking up anything online about it. For example: after I got out of the shower this morning I thought about how I needed to apply cream on my arms to prevent dry skin. It was only a thought that took me a few seconds. And minutes later I receive an ad on Instagram about dry skin.

I have never even googled dry skin. I didn't say anything about it to anyone lol. And I get the ad the day I think about it? These things keep happening more and more for some reason.

I know it's not possible and I promise I'm not going insane or anything, so don't lock me up lol. Just an observation.

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[–] MatBC@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I think my friend, that this is as some people already said things on similar lines, that it's a function of a reality that sometimes can make us sad, that although in many ways we are absolutely unique, in many others we are far less unique as we think, and specially if you are of a population that the algorithms are interested, like live in Europe, or the US, even more so if on the more affluent parts of either, the algorithm will make assumotions based on basically everything you do that passed through or near a Microsoft, Google or even Apple operating system.