Comment on Facebook listening to conversations through microphone?Comments−thewarrior10yReading all the creepy anecdotes in the thread ...Possibility 1 : Facebook is snooping on your conversations.Possibility 2: Their machine learning algorithms are getting creepily good at predicting your wants and needs.Both are scary.−shalmanese10yPossibility 3: With a large enough userbase, all sorts of crazy co-incidences happen. If 1.4 billion users login every day, 1 in a million co-incidences happen once a minute.−thewarrior10yI concede but only upto a point. Do go to the thread read all the crazy coincidences :P . Their targeting is definitely improving.−tedunangst10yConfirmation bias? How many times was the author shown ads for exterminators before this incident but paid them no attention?
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Reading all the creepy anecdotes in the thread ...
Possibility 1 : Facebook is snooping on your conversations.
Possibility 2: Their machine learning algorithms are getting creepily good at predicting your wants and needs.
Both are scary.
Possibility 3: With a large enough userbase, all sorts of crazy co-incidences happen. If 1.4 billion users login every day, 1 in a million co-incidences happen once a minute.
I concede but only upto a point. Do go to the thread read all the crazy coincidences :P . Their targeting is definitely improving.
Confirmation bias? How many times was the author shown ads for exterminators before this incident but paid them no attention?