• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    At one point there was a period of time where YouTube was consistently serving me ads in Arabic, a language that I don’t speak and from a country I have never been to.

    Their algorithm just breaks sometimes.

    Edit: not sure why that was in capitals.

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      There was awhile there where my parents were getting ads for Pull-Ups Toddler diapers in Spanish.

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        I know there was that story about Google knowing about some guy’s daughter being pregnant before she’d actually told him.

        So maybe I’m just really Arabic and haven’t noticed yet.

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          That wasn’t Google, it was Target. Based on the teen’s buying habits, that she suddenly started buying certain vitamins, unscented lotion, that sort of stuff with her loyalty card, their system put two and two together and sent her coupons for maternity and baby products, which is how her father learned he was gonna be a grandpa.

          Google has similar power to know more about you than your friends and family, though.

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      2 days ago

      “THEY ARE ALGORITHM JUST BREAKS SOMETIME”

      is what you just said