Do you think Facebook listens to what you are saying? (1 Viewer)

[Pipes]

Do you happen to have the Facebook Messenger app installed on your phone? I don't use the regular app but I do have Messenger so I suspect that's the listening app 

I do, that's good to know. 

 

[grateful zed]

i had shrimp last nite.

 

[Angry Beavers]

they all are - alexa, siri, google home etc.

100%

 

[KiddLattimer]

I do, that's good to know. 

I could be totally wrong of course but I'm not sure what else it could be. 

 

[Zow]

Yes. I've talked about particular items only to see ads for them on my feed shortly thereafter. 

But, whether this is Alexa/Siri and FB stealing I don't know so I answered "probably." 

 

[Slapdash]

Of course. Just had a good example of this with "puzzle" during a conversation only, then an add on facebook right after.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

i had shrimp last nite.

Just by quoting this, I expect a slew of seafood ads.

 

[Don Hutson]

I've used Yahoo for news for a long time.  Sometime about 10 years ago I started getting stone crusher ads on a daily basis.  It's a machine that you put big rocks into and it crushes them into smaller stones or gravel.  These are big industrial machines they are advertising.  I have no idea how they determined that I'd want an stone crusher.  I must have accidentally clicked on an ad one time.  I wonder if I'll still be getting these ads when I'm 80 years old.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I've used Yahoo for news for a long time.  Sometime about 10 years ago I started getting stone crusher ads on a daily basis.  It's a machine that you put big rocks into and it crushes them into smaller stones or gravel.  These are big industrial machines they are advertising.  I have no idea how they determined that I'd want an stone crusher.  I must have accidentally clicked on an ad one time.  I wonder if I'll still be getting these ads when I'm 80 years old.

Recently I've had an influx of ads for these big ugly shoes, always the same brand and style. I have no idea why.