I’m learning a language, I speak it in public to other people who do. I don’t research the language, because I have some old text books on it. My partner doesn’t speak it and doesn’t research it on their devices. I don’t normally have my phone on me in public, but my partner does. It took about 4 months of publicly speaking in the language before they got ads
What do you think this means?
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It was a Reddit ad and my city has embraced those AI smart cameras, so I assume some of those are Google owned which makes sense with Reddit and Google’s recent alliance. This is assuming our devices aren’t listening to us without our permission and AI cameras are mining data on passersby
Other theories are that since cellphones are involved it doesn’t matter if I nor my partner ever searched for the language, at some point my phone or partner’s phone was near someone who spoke that language and the data brokers/ad sellers inferred from there
Seems like the consensus is that I must have posted in the language on some social media or used Google to research it or made some new friends who speak the language and that’s why
This is how I know I’m winning at privacy. When my podcasts inject ads that I can’t understand
Yup, isn’t that a result of data poisoning?
Most likely just due to the VPN exiting in other countries, but advertisers are the most prolific trackers, so it is still an indication that they don’t know who I am. Which is good.
Isn’t that still technically a mild form of data poisoning though?
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
Are you implying data poisoning is bad?
@delirious_owl
…No. Why? How did I even come across as that?
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted
The repeated emphasis read to me as potentially that. Like you were trying to get them to admit that was the reason. But, to be fair to you, I’m autistic, so I sometimes misread people’s intent.
Ah.
No, what I was trying to do was merely confirm that what I understood to be the definition of “data poisoning” was correct, in that this qualified as an instance thereof.
(And it’s cool. I’m also autistic, so I am intimately familiar with the concept of reading people incorrectly. Lol. x3 )