I think it's due to the other users on the site then making halo-related searches, so you get adverts for it because there's reasonable likelihood that you'd be interested too.
That weird phenomena of talking about stuff then getting adverts, while I absolutely despise all advertising agencies and wouldn't be surprised if it is worse, I reckon is down to other people who were also exposed to whatever webpage it was that made you think/speak about it who then go on to search it in Google, and therefore your profile gets some likelihood associated with it that you'd be interested in that too and worth an advert. Analysis of all microphone data for every user is incredibly computationally expensive, and their targeting gets better every time somebody ignores/clicks on/spends screen time on an advert anyway so they wouldn't even need to collect and analyse all microphone etc. data to achieve the accuracy they do, and that's waaaaay more terrifying than "they listen in to our conversations". At least that way they'd be collecting accurate data at the source, and not being capable of reproducing it from the behaviour patterns of everyone else around us being exposed to the same things we are.
That weird phenomena of talking about stuff then getting adverts, while I absolutely despise all advertising agencies and wouldn’t be surprised if it is worse, I reckon is down to other people who were also exposed to whatever webpage it was that made you think/speak about it who then go on to search it in Google, and therefore your profile gets some likelihood associated with it that you’d be interested in that too and worth an advert.
That doesn't account for the times that it's something that's entirely offline that makes you say it.
I tend towards this understanding, that these freaky coincidences to do with conversations or talking out loud are more a sign of how refined the actual tools that we know they use - the tracking of everything you do online and cross-referencing of that with everything millions of people vaguely similar do online - actually are.
I think it's due to the other users on the site then making halo-related searches, so you get adverts for it because there's reasonable likelihood that you'd be interested too.
That weird phenomena of talking about stuff then getting adverts, while I absolutely despise all advertising agencies and wouldn't be surprised if it is worse, I reckon is down to other people who were also exposed to whatever webpage it was that made you think/speak about it who then go on to search it in Google, and therefore your profile gets some likelihood associated with it that you'd be interested in that too and worth an advert. Analysis of all microphone data for every user is incredibly computationally expensive, and their targeting gets better every time somebody ignores/clicks on/spends screen time on an advert anyway so they wouldn't even need to collect and analyse all microphone etc. data to achieve the accuracy they do, and that's waaaaay more terrifying than "they listen in to our conversations". At least that way they'd be collecting accurate data at the source, and not being capable of reproducing it from the behaviour patterns of everyone else around us being exposed to the same things we are.
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That doesn't account for the times that it's something that's entirely offline that makes you say it.
I tend towards this understanding, that these freaky coincidences to do with conversations or talking out loud are more a sign of how refined the actual tools that we know they use - the tracking of everything you do online and cross-referencing of that with everything millions of people vaguely similar do online - actually are.