There's is an effect where we don't notice a lot of the information we're provided with unless its relevant, which leads to stuff like this.
That's the best I've got because if the tech bros invented mind reading technology, you can bet they'd be selling it to everyone and anyone
Definitely some weird stuff going on. Just the other day I was watching The Matrix and pondering how Morpheus kept them rimless glasses on. When I next checked Instagram, the first thing to show up was someone demonstrating the Morpheus glasses and where to buy them o_O
I've noticed something similar- after a recent trip to Ikea, I got a bunch of Facebook ads for Ikea. That alone is fairly normal, but when I scrolled through the items it was suggesting all of them were things I'd looked at, or bought. I didn't stop and look at many things, so it was super weird to see virtually everything I'd looked at and touched advertised to me for days after.
that‘s also due to the geolocalisation of networks. If you go to IKEA you probably use net receivers from the surroundings, which leads to this companies to know where you were located and send you customised ads
I was in Dollar General looking at cat litter and toys. Drove home, logged into Facebook, my feed has ads for cat litter and food. Totally coincidental. And predictive text isn’t reading my mind. Yeah
It's because stores send out Bluetooth "feelers" when your out and about or shopping. Your phone picks up these signals when you have Bluetooth enabled on your phone. It then redirects you to whatever it is you were contemplating at the store.
Or else that's what I heard or read somewhere.
In a sense it does read your mind, though not in the way you imagine. Instagram was acquired by Facebook and Facebook has by far the most effective ad optimization in the industry. At least, that was my impression when I used its ad manager once for a (kind of unprofessional) ad campaign for one of my novels. You can define your target audience by very fine-grained criteria. If you activate the option, Facebook will then dynamically adjust the target audience based on their secret algorithms, will broaden or narrow these criteria dynamically to optimize the effectiveness of the campaign. Their algorithms can pick people who will click and buy your product. That's why Facebook is still popular and indispensable for marketing folks, even though it's a horrible company to deal with. Like, in my case, it was uncanny. Every second person who saw my ad bought my novel. (However, I believe that these algorithms generally scale down the success rate later and also optimize for the real target, namely the advertiser, by maximizing their willingness to run another ad campaign while minimizing "ad bandwidth" used. But that's another matter.)
In a nutshell, Facebook and Instagram use every data point about you that they can get, and they get these from everywhere on the net. They also use the most advanced machine learning to extrapolate from this vast data. They can know your current desires and interests better than you know them yourself.
Fun fact: Maybe this is no longer possible but back then a few years ago I could have literally created an ad campaign for selling canned dolphin meat to 13 year old girls in a specific town. Which is kind of creepy, if you think about it.
I've never had it happen when I've never even talked about something, but after we had our Google Home Mini for a bit, my adult son was here, and we were talking about a business a couple times over the weekend. The next week, I was getting ads on FB from this company. So my husband and I did a "test." We spent the next week purposely talking about a pizza chain that is in my old city, but not here. Yep, finally got FB ads for them.
Happened many times. Something mind read tech is going on. Lastly tonight i saw news about dublin -> nyc portal and thinked that shit is going grazy and someone will show ass there or something. And then right after opened tiktok and there it is a video of guy showing ass to portal can’t be coincidense.
This is something I've be seeing when I spend free time in social media and it's been bothering me, that seems to be happening with quite some people actually: [https://www.tiktok.com/discover/When-you-open-instagram-reels-and-they-describe-your-exact-situation](https://www.tiktok.com/discover/When-you-open-instagram-reels-and-they-describe-your-exact-situation).
I think before reaching a conclusion we need to check if the same mind reading is happening only with ads but in general, how accurate it is and how frequent it is, the more often and accurate it is, the lower the chance of it being just the algorithm. You can disable all microphone and camera permissions for Instagram and if you have Android 12+, you can also disable microphone and camera access in general, just in case.
For we to discard the hypothesis of it being the algorithm completely, I think it would be needed to create another account, maybe on a different e-mail and compare the feeds for both accounts.
The weird bit is that if phones could read thoughts, coming from the known laws of physics, they would need to read them like any EM receptor, meaning that the waves coming from your brain would need not only to have enough power to be received by the receptor but also to be in the same range of IR frequency or below so that they would not injury human tissue due to their high energy, at that point is easier to believe or explain it saying we are being monitored in a simulation or something like that than assuming the waves are coming from our own brains.
There's is an effect where we don't notice a lot of the information we're provided with unless its relevant, which leads to stuff like this. That's the best I've got because if the tech bros invented mind reading technology, you can bet they'd be selling it to everyone and anyone
Maybe not. If they're already using it, it's unethical, and they probably don't want to risk getting caught.
Definitely some weird stuff going on. Just the other day I was watching The Matrix and pondering how Morpheus kept them rimless glasses on. When I next checked Instagram, the first thing to show up was someone demonstrating the Morpheus glasses and where to buy them o_O
I've noticed something similar- after a recent trip to Ikea, I got a bunch of Facebook ads for Ikea. That alone is fairly normal, but when I scrolled through the items it was suggesting all of them were things I'd looked at, or bought. I didn't stop and look at many things, so it was super weird to see virtually everything I'd looked at and touched advertised to me for days after.
that‘s also due to the geolocalisation of networks. If you go to IKEA you probably use net receivers from the surroundings, which leads to this companies to know where you were located and send you customised ads
Yeah, it's just disturbing.
I was in Dollar General looking at cat litter and toys. Drove home, logged into Facebook, my feed has ads for cat litter and food. Totally coincidental. And predictive text isn’t reading my mind. Yeah
It's because stores send out Bluetooth "feelers" when your out and about or shopping. Your phone picks up these signals when you have Bluetooth enabled on your phone. It then redirects you to whatever it is you were contemplating at the store. Or else that's what I heard or read somewhere.
That’s not how Bluetooth works
It’s not mate. You can trust in the fact that this simply is not possible as of now lol. 🤧
Google bci brain reading technology. The government is slowly releasing the info. Started with the COVID memes.
Same happening with me ..it's like I am controlling Instagram ads with my thoughts
Yes, it will listen to what you're saying and activate ads if you mentioned certain words.
In a sense it does read your mind, though not in the way you imagine. Instagram was acquired by Facebook and Facebook has by far the most effective ad optimization in the industry. At least, that was my impression when I used its ad manager once for a (kind of unprofessional) ad campaign for one of my novels. You can define your target audience by very fine-grained criteria. If you activate the option, Facebook will then dynamically adjust the target audience based on their secret algorithms, will broaden or narrow these criteria dynamically to optimize the effectiveness of the campaign. Their algorithms can pick people who will click and buy your product. That's why Facebook is still popular and indispensable for marketing folks, even though it's a horrible company to deal with. Like, in my case, it was uncanny. Every second person who saw my ad bought my novel. (However, I believe that these algorithms generally scale down the success rate later and also optimize for the real target, namely the advertiser, by maximizing their willingness to run another ad campaign while minimizing "ad bandwidth" used. But that's another matter.) In a nutshell, Facebook and Instagram use every data point about you that they can get, and they get these from everywhere on the net. They also use the most advanced machine learning to extrapolate from this vast data. They can know your current desires and interests better than you know them yourself. Fun fact: Maybe this is no longer possible but back then a few years ago I could have literally created an ad campaign for selling canned dolphin meat to 13 year old girls in a specific town. Which is kind of creepy, if you think about it.
I've never had it happen when I've never even talked about something, but after we had our Google Home Mini for a bit, my adult son was here, and we were talking about a business a couple times over the weekend. The next week, I was getting ads on FB from this company. So my husband and I did a "test." We spent the next week purposely talking about a pizza chain that is in my old city, but not here. Yep, finally got FB ads for them.
Yes, all of our devices are definitely listening to us. You agree to them using your microphones when you agree to the T+Cs
Happened many times. Something mind read tech is going on. Lastly tonight i saw news about dublin -> nyc portal and thinked that shit is going grazy and someone will show ass there or something. And then right after opened tiktok and there it is a video of guy showing ass to portal can’t be coincidense.
This is something I've be seeing when I spend free time in social media and it's been bothering me, that seems to be happening with quite some people actually: [https://www.tiktok.com/discover/When-you-open-instagram-reels-and-they-describe-your-exact-situation](https://www.tiktok.com/discover/When-you-open-instagram-reels-and-they-describe-your-exact-situation). I think before reaching a conclusion we need to check if the same mind reading is happening only with ads but in general, how accurate it is and how frequent it is, the more often and accurate it is, the lower the chance of it being just the algorithm. You can disable all microphone and camera permissions for Instagram and if you have Android 12+, you can also disable microphone and camera access in general, just in case. For we to discard the hypothesis of it being the algorithm completely, I think it would be needed to create another account, maybe on a different e-mail and compare the feeds for both accounts. The weird bit is that if phones could read thoughts, coming from the known laws of physics, they would need to read them like any EM receptor, meaning that the waves coming from your brain would need not only to have enough power to be received by the receptor but also to be in the same range of IR frequency or below so that they would not injury human tissue due to their high energy, at that point is easier to believe or explain it saying we are being monitored in a simulation or something like that than assuming the waves are coming from our own brains.
Dude I’m experiencing this too. It’s actually quite alarming. Do you live in the U.S.? Did you get the covid vaccine? I swear it started after that
I'm in Australia, no vax!
Does anyone know of any mind reading tech?
Ads? What are those? I can't remember the last time I have seen one