• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I know Facebook and Reddit are in cahoots.

    I went to visit Reddit a couple weeks back to read the Deadpool & Wolverine comments, but used the wrong container tab and now Facebook feeds me endless Marvel related stuff.

    A lot of it is culture war bullshit too. Hmmmmm 🤔

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      2 months ago

      oh i know how this works and its not the way you think. Its somehow better and worse at the same time

      Im going to describe the process using a hypothetical situation:

      You decide to try a new shampoo but you’re not sure what to buy. You ask your friend “hey what shampoo do you use” and they tell you they use Head and Shoulders.

      Later that night, you google head and shoulders and read reviews

      The next day, your friend gets Head and Shoulders ads on youtube and facebook and Instagram, etc

      This is because google knows both of your locations and search history. It sees that you two were within a few feet of each for hours and decides to shoot ads at you both, based on what either of you have searched recently.

      This is called proximity targetted advertising and i think its gross.

      But this is why so many people say things like “we were talking about it and now im seeing ads they must be spying on me”

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      2 months ago

      No, you don’t know anything. Just because you have a suspicion because something happened to you once doesn’t mean you are sure in any way.

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        2 months ago

        Nah I’m sure.

        I never once saw a post about Marvel fed to me by Facebook and now it’s constant

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          2 months ago

          Did it start after the extremely popular marvel movie “Deadpool and Wolverine” released?

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            2 months ago

            Lol that’s your argument for why you think they don’t know what they’re talking about? Because all you did is make yourself seem like you have no idea how cookies work 🤣

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              2 months ago

              It’s just one single person who noticed something once.

              That’s an awful awful sample size absolutely filled with bias and thought fallacies.

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            2 months ago

            Before. “Couple weeks” is more like 5 months at this point now that I think about it.

            I don’t mind some of it much, but the obvious culture-war bait is infuriating.

            It’s not because the movie just came out. I’ve been diligent about keeping Facebook and Reddit in their container tabs for years. It’s just Marvel stuff, not just the movies. Marvel’s been putting out huge movies for years and this hasn’t happened around any of their other releases.

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              2 months ago

              Why aren’t you just using the official automatic Facebook container?