Too freaky for coincidence

dad911 · 08-01-2019, 10:57 AM

At a winery last sunday, for my mom's 90th birthday party, they had a few of these around the picnic area:

I spoke to my son about it, we thought it would be cool in the backyard, but I never searched for these firepits/cauldrons on either my phone or home computers.

Today the above popped up in my facebook feed.

Am I being spied upon? Location based add? (google maps knew I was there, and others may buy after being in the same location)

flipper35 · flipper35's Garage

Everyone is spied on constantly.

Jeff Higgins · 08-01-2019, 11:02 AM

"He knows when you've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake..." Except it ain't Santa anymore. It's real...

HardDrive · 08-01-2019, 11:07 AM

You are not crazy. I am absolutely convinced that there are apps our phones listening to us. WAY to many instances of that exact same thing. I talk to someone about some obscure product, and bingo, it show up in my facebook ads. I never searched for the product, only talked to someone about it.

Bugsinrugs · 11:18 AM

I had never seen those before and it was on my Facebook also

rockfan4 · 08-01-2019, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by flipper35

Everyone is spied on constantly.

This.

This February I was talking to a co-worker about a "Tacos are my Valentine" shirt, I thought it would be funny to get for Valentines day. She searched for the shirt on her computer and brought it up.

Another co-worker across the aisle joined in on the conversation, but didn't look anything up on either her computer or phone.

That night the same shirt we were looking at showed up on co-worker #2's Facebook feed.

Creepy.

dad911 · 08-01-2019, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Bugsinrugs

I had never seen those before and it was on my Facebook also

Also looks like a scam. They sell for alot more.

Facebook should be vetting ads for scams.

sc_rufctr · 08-01-2019, 11:32 AM

The winery company bought those cauldrons so the company that sells them knows the location of their product...

And your phone knows were it so if you logged onto a web browser to your Google account on your phone, Google are probably getting location data.
= Targeted advertising.

It may seem far fetched but it doesn't take a lot of data or bandwidth to do stuff like this.

BK911 · BK911's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by HardDrive

You are not crazy. I am absolutely convinced that there are apps our phones listening to us. WAY to many instances of that exact same thing. I talk to someone about some obscure product, and bingo, it show up in my facebook ads. I never searched for the product, only talked to someone about it.

Heard a radio blurb couple of days ago that was discussing this exact thing.
Apparently the serie sp? and other voice commanded devices are sending data to the mother ship for them to scan to *better develop their product*.
They also discussed that some phones do the same thing.
Big brother is watching and listening. No doubt.

Neilk · 08-01-2019, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by BK911

Heard a radio blurb couple of days ago that was discussing this exact thing.
Apparently the serie sp? and other voice commanded devices are sending data to the mother ship for them to scan to *better develop their product*.
They also discussed that some phones do the same thing.
Big brother is watching and listening. No doubt.

Sounds like you were listening to NPR.

After hearing that show, I dumped Chrome and went back to Firefox after not using it for 10 years. The number of trackers and cookies it is blocking is amazing. I don't really see any difference in functionality, but some of the menu navigation needs improving.

KFC911 · 08-01-2019, 12:08 PM

Just quit goin' to the WICCA winery...freaky I tell ya

john70t · 08-01-2019, 12:27 PM

Is this even a question anymore? Of course they are doing it and people just do not care.
The solution is to not buy these products or allow them in your lives.
Get a dumb phone and/or wrap the other in foil box until you want to use it.
There have been zero privacy laws enacted for two decades and it's not even remotely on the table.

https://www.theblaze.com/unleashed/google-nest-microphone
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/business/amazon-alexa-conversation-shared-echo.html
https://nypost.com/2019/07/29/apples-siri-routinely-records-you-having-sex/
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-voice-search-records-stores-conversation-people-have-around-their-phones-but-files-can-be-a7059376.html
http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/settings/facerecognition.html

herr_oberst · 08-01-2019, 01:05 PM

Those are some pretty spiffy Adirondacks! They look solid as hell!

Jeff Higgins · 08-01-2019, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by HardDrive

You are not crazy. I am absolutely convinced that there are apps our phones listening to us. WAY to many instances of that exact same thing. I talk to someone about some obscure product, and bingo, it show up in my facebook ads. I never searched for the product, only talked to someone about it.

Dayum. Maybe I should start b.s.ing with my buddies about Jessica alba, Elizabeth Hurly, and other such women...

masraum · 08-01-2019, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by peteremsley

Yep - my iPhone knows when it's thursday and gives me driving times to a local dive bar without my request. Thursday is 50c chicken wing night and I often meet a buddy there.

You can turn that off
https://www.imore.com/stop-iphone-tracking-frequent-locations

Tervuren · Tervuren's Garage

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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Dayum. Maybe I should start b.s.ing with my buddies about Jessica alba, Elizabeth Hurly, and other such women...

Jeff, back in the final weeks before I quit facebook; I used to write posts only I could see just to change the advertisements.

It would change the adds on the page at the current visit.

It never made any long term changes that I could see. My adds were probably demographically targeted.

IMO, this is location/friend based rather than "listening".

You may not have gone and looked it up, but how do you know someone around you didn't?

All it takes is targeting people that are together or know eachother; if one is interested, surely a friend is too?

aschen · 08-01-2019, 02:25 PM

My speculation is that those are unique enough items that several people at the winery looked them up on google. Google then used every bodies location data to spot a good opportunity for a targeted ad. I doubt it is the result of voice recognition of y'alls conversation...........but I may be in denial

stealthn · 08-01-2019, 03:39 PM

Android or IOS?

My wife and I are trying an experiment, we talk to each other about getting a good price on something obscure, I won’t name it hear to void our experiment but pick something there is no way someone would know you were interested in.

Repeat it, ask about where to find it and the best place to buy one.

So far no targeted ads, we are all Apple products.

Zeke · 08-01-2019, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by HardDrive

You are not crazy. I am absolutely convinced that there are apps our phones listening to us. WAY to many instances of that exact same thing. I talk to someone about some obscure product, and bingo, it show up in my facebook ads. I never searched for the product, only talked to someone about it.

If they listen to my phone their ears must hurt. Around one to a few guys and I have a dirty mouth.

daepp · 08-01-2019, 04:11 PM

I wonder sometimes if ads are popping up all the time that I just don't normally notice until I see the thing (eg the chairs) and then when I see them on FB I notice??