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Yeah I can't decide on this one. Part of me thinks this can't be happening, and that someone would have realised. But there's been a couple of occasions that go beyond the "creepy coincidence" ads to something that I was speaking with my wife about that day and neither of us had put into the internet, suddenly we get ads for it.



People really aren’t capable of conceptualizing how intimate normal data collection and analytics are capable of being. You think your phone is listening because you assume that’s the only way the ads can know so much, and ironically the truth is far more invasive.




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