Does facebook listen to conversations??
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twing said:
ReverendCounter said:
twing said:
That's a hell of a coinsidence.
It's not, your conversation was recorded/used by FB to create a tailored ad.Blown2CV said:
twing said:
ReverendCounter said:
twing said:
That's a hell of a coinsidence.
It's not, your conversation was recorded/used by FB to create a tailored ad.twing said:
Blown2CV said:
twing said:
ReverendCounter said:
twing said:
That's a hell of a coinsidence.
It's not, your conversation was recorded/used by FB to create a tailored ad.twing said:
Just been chatting about old Gameboys and similar things we have in the cupboard at home. Logged into FB and loe and behold an advert for a Nintendo DS light. That's a hell of a coinsidence.
I find myself looking at a lot of these posts and wondering what came first - the random conversation, or the marketing. We get bombarded with adverts and tune 99% of them out as they aren't relevant to us, only the ones that either somehow stand out or are in the forefront of our minds get noticed. But the rest are still there, quietly percolating in the background and may well pop out because - having barely noticed an ad - we getting chatting about that very subject. Second time round, it jumps out. And gets called Facebook mic snooping.Just a theory mind.
Surely we need a group to suddenly start talking about something completely unrelated to anything they've looked at or searched for before, but not look these things up on social media or facebook.
let's say:
Haggis
Communism
Virgin Galactic spaceflight
Considering an MG as your next new car/lease (because no one from this forum would)
let's say:
Haggis
Communism
Virgin Galactic spaceflight
Considering an MG as your next new car/lease (because no one from this forum would)
tenohfive said:
I find myself looking at a lot of these posts and wondering what came first - the random conversation, or the marketing. We get bombarded with adverts and tune 99% of them out as they aren't relevant to us, only the ones that either somehow stand out or are in the forefront of our minds get noticed. But the rest are still there, quietly percolating in the background and may well pop out because - having barely noticed an ad - we getting chatting about that very subject. Second time round, it jumps out. And gets called Facebook mic snooping.
Just a theory mind.
Exactly, many cases of heightened perception here.Just a theory mind.
MissChief said:
Surely we need a group to suddenly start talking about something completely unrelated to anything they've looked at or searched for before, but not look these things up on social media or facebook.
let's say:
Haggis
Communism
Virgin Galactic spaceflight
Considering an MG as your next new car/lease (because no one from this forum would)
male incontinence pantslet's say:
Haggis
Communism
Virgin Galactic spaceflight
Considering an MG as your next new car/lease (because no one from this forum would)
tenohfive said:
TonyRPH said:
That's as maybe, but I've had first hand experience of this happening myself.
The only explanation I can offer is that the conversation was overheard.
There is no other explanation.
What's the scenario? I went back a couple of pages but can't see your post on the subject.The only explanation I can offer is that the conversation was overheard.
There is no other explanation.
They were discussing a particular item - wife gets home and adverts for said item on Facebook appear within minutes of logging in.
He doesn't live with us, so no shared internet connection.
Another instance; wife and I discussing item, next day she has adverts for said item on Facebook...
However... she *doesn't* even have FB on her phone (Microsoft Lumia) and neither do I - I do however have an Android phone with all the Google stuff (but almost everything disabled AFAIK).
We have been doing some random tests, but nothing conclusive yet..
Only other thing we have is an Amazon FireTV with the voice enabled blue tooth remote - I now remove the batteries on that when we're not using the FireTV.
Some of this might be coincidence - but as I said - we have an ongoing test to see what we get, based on deliberate discussions we have.
But I'm currently well in the camp of believing that keywords are "heard" and being made use of.
So, can you actually be sure that you weren't seeing adverts about those things beforehand (in amongst the millions of marketing images you see on a daily basis)?
I think it's possible that you were talking about it precisely because without realising that you'd seen the adverts, the back of your brain has taken some note of it. But even if you haven't - one day, you see an advert for a fridge and ignore it. The next day you're talking about buying a fridge. Then you see the same advert and properly notice it in the front of your brain.
Does anyone else notice how when you decide what your next car is going to be (assuming it's something 'everday' and non-PH) you see 3 million of them on the roads, when the day before you might have thought of it as being less common?
Perhaps I've just been watching too much Derren Brown.
I think it's possible that you were talking about it precisely because without realising that you'd seen the adverts, the back of your brain has taken some note of it. But even if you haven't - one day, you see an advert for a fridge and ignore it. The next day you're talking about buying a fridge. Then you see the same advert and properly notice it in the front of your brain.
Does anyone else notice how when you decide what your next car is going to be (assuming it's something 'everday' and non-PH) you see 3 million of them on the roads, when the day before you might have thought of it as being less common?
Perhaps I've just been watching too much Derren Brown.
I have stringent ad blocking and anti tracking (via DNS) on my home network (although blocking FB adverts is not possible / very difficult with my methods).
I very, very rarely use my phone for internet off my home network (if at all) - and simply don't use it at home at all.
The O/H uses hers for banking only, and even then, very, very rarely, and again never uses it at home.
Cookies are regularly cleared on all devices.
My point here is that apart from Facebook, we very rarely see online adverts, and hence don't even get the associated cookies.
Therefore it's highly unlikely that any association has been made through web browser traffic.
Which brings me to the conclusion that the only any information can be gleaned is via listening....
I very, very rarely use my phone for internet off my home network (if at all) - and simply don't use it at home at all.
The O/H uses hers for banking only, and even then, very, very rarely, and again never uses it at home.
Cookies are regularly cleared on all devices.
My point here is that apart from Facebook, we very rarely see online adverts, and hence don't even get the associated cookies.
Therefore it's highly unlikely that any association has been made through web browser traffic.
Which brings me to the conclusion that the only any information can be gleaned is via listening....
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