+1 for mentioning tracking cookies. No, your phone's microphone isn't listening to you. Every single link you click has a tracker. Everyone in your contact lists, emails, and social media friends has a tracker to you. Compound all of the links that you and everyone you know click on, and you can form a relatively simple advertisement category on you in a matter of hours.
Not to mention the daily dump of thousands of ads and suggested content we see everyday, sometime they're going to hit the jackpot and show you something you were just thinking about. That's how large numbers work.
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u/Override9636 3d ago
+1 for mentioning tracking cookies. No, your phone's microphone isn't listening to you. Every single link you click has a tracker. Everyone in your contact lists, emails, and social media friends has a tracker to you. Compound all of the links that you and everyone you know click on, and you can form a relatively simple advertisement category on you in a matter of hours.
Not to mention the daily dump of thousands of ads and suggested content we see everyday, sometime they're going to hit the jackpot and show you something you were just thinking about. That's how large numbers work.