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  • Yeah, it's like when a couple talk about something and then one of them gets ads for it and they think "ooh they're listening" and not that "ooh this thing that we just spent 4hrs talking about, one of us probably looked at on the internet"

  • Indeed.

    Or they're talking about it because a friend / colleague mentioned it, and had been looking at it, and some algo identified a pattern that when people browse that sort of thing, they must talk about it, as people in their network search it a day later, so they decide it's time to start spamming adverts for it.

  • Yep. Most people just don't understand how it works so the "they're listening!" thing comes up all the time.

    Thing is peeps, they don't have to listen. The 4hrs every day you spend looking at your phone, the 4hrs you spend looking at non work shit on your computer...

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