TikToker reveals how to find out what Google knows about you
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Google collects your data to target ads - and this is how much the tech giant knows about you.
  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    What I want to know is why when I’m talking to my wife in the car about buying new shoes do I get a YouTube ad that evening about new shoes, when I never got that kind of ad before.

    Are our phones listening to us while we talk in the car, and then ads are generated from that?

    I’d really like to know the answer to that question.

    Edit: fixed typo, shoes, not shows.

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    • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      What are the odds than anyone in the household searched for the shows? Targeting ads to all devices on the same IP or even devices that have previously been on the same network happens.

      I was able to predict that my mom had been researching “bunion shoes” after I started seeing ads, seemingly randomly, for them not long after she came to my house to visit.