yeeeeeeah

Okay I feel like I am missing the obvious here but I see the message of 'got new kitten in the house so hard to sit down to call customer service in a window of office hours so you can call whenever'. I don't know what is creepy please tell me. ;_;

i got a new cat on tuesday and they hit me with this ad on instagram today

possibly a coincidence, but it feels much more likely my purchase history data (petco! nhspca!) was harvested to target this at me

Nah this is scuzzy lmao

After a few times of me saying i look like I'm X months pregnant, i started getting ads for baby things

i know someone who did an experiment where she picked a celebrity that she knew for a fact she'd never searched for or posted about, and then started talking out loud about that celebrity, at home alone but in hearing range of her phone

and like clockwork her newsfeed algorithm started showing her articles about that celebrity

Mmmyeah that's sketchy as hell

OH I see.

datafarming creepy okay

this happens so often and i know it does im just baffled as to how

what exactly is listening

more in this same vein: last night at d&d we were chatting about how a couple people in the group know multiple long-term hawaii residents who are moving away from the big island, either because of overtourism or the rising cost of living or both

and within literal minutes of that conversation, my newsfeed served me up an article about a colorado family who tried to move to hawaii but struggled to find affordable housing even with an astronomical budget

this is why i don't fuss too much about always-on location history or w/e, my phone is clearly going to be tracking me and listening to me no matter what i do, so i might as well leave on the settings that allow me to see and use that data for my own purposes

yeeeeeep