Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube Listening to Private Conversations for...
by abahuguna on Monday December 09, 2024 @07:39AM
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I have also experienced this a couple times. Once I read in a newspaper (offline/paper, I live in India) that a certain accomplished classical dancer with a great career died recently... I did not do any google search on it... same day I saw a prompt related to that on Quora about classical dance etc. It was eerie. Another time a similar thing happened. I still try to tell myself that maybe this was chance or coincidence but things seem weird for sure.
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Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube Listening to Private Conversations for...
by theGeatZhopa on Monday December 09, 2024 @08:16AM
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If a classical dancer with a great career dies, then for sure, you're not to only one clicking on the news. The more clicks, the more the content is of interest and the more it will be pushed - and then comes you and such content is pushed to you.
Events of public interest, whatever others in your neighborhood have googled, watched or clicked on, might also be of interest for you. Hence, it's pushed to you.
That's just statistics for predicting what might be of you interest:
"A similar community is often interested in similar things"