/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>15931835
just go with it dude

>>15931835
i've experienced this too
makes me wonder if i thought of the thing because i saw an ad for it somewhere else or my thoughts are actually being monitored somehow

>>15931835
I find it funny how all of these resources and some of the most brilliant, highly paid minds are dedicated to tailoring ads to me, and I just block and/or ignore them.

>>15931853
Make no mistake, the internet is a hive mind. If you think of something, it has already been thought of a million times over for you. Your thoughts are not "your thoughts"

>>15931853
They can predict what thoughts you’re going to have by what you’ve viewed

>>15931872
The majority of your thoughts maybe, but all of them certainly not

>notice something at the store
>Don't buy it
>Get an ad for it later

>>15931909
>he doesn't know

>>15931909
All of them.

>>15931835
They can predict your thoughts, because they can look at people who have similar video histories to you, and then look at the videos they've looked at in the past hour.

People with similar watch histories, tend to have similar thoughts.

Also, you don't notice the 100x they recommended something you didn't think of, versus the 1x they were right.

I mean if you watched dozens of dragon dildo videos on pornhub, you’ll be thinking of dragon dildoes all day. at the same time, you’ll get ads for dragon dildoes.

Y9u don't know it but you talk to yourself quite often. One of the mics on your half dozen devices picks it up and bam! Delivers you an ad or a recommended video. Im the guy assigned to monitor you, btw.

>>15932654
Oh shit I never thought of it that way. I know on a cognitive level they track what people like you are also interested in, it never occured to me that could mean things like maybe everybody can hear the guy in the podcast eating chips and get hungry for chips thus making them advertise chips when your watching the video even though you think thats just a thought you had just now. That makes lots of sense.

Weirdest one for me was after I finished cooming, faceberg start bombarding me with tissue ads.

>>15931835
Dude you have about 100,000 thoughts a day

>>15931835
tailored ads
you watched something related to that before

>>15931835
The value of data surpassed the value of oil. Everyone are now little oil pumpjacks. They can just keep pumping your data until you're no longer providing any (when you die).

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2017/05/06/the-worlds-most-valuable-resource-is-no-longer-oil-but-data

>>15931866
> and I just block and/or ignore them.
But you still use a cell phone, and you still use the internet, and you still use email, and you probably still watch shows through any number of streaming platforms, and if you don't, you still are pirating it off a magnet host.

All of those collect data on you. The ads are just how they push data to you, and they only make money if you consume the content of the ad (purchase the product). The source of where advertising companies are profiting isn't the ad or pushing the ad to you. It's harvesting your data and selling it to anyone and everyone: governments, political action committees, political campaigns, the military, the police, data analytics firms, other advertisers in bulk collections, banks, etc.

>>15932897
>The value of data surpassed the value of oil.

>>15932953
Exactly.

>he didn't take the chip off his neck
Never gonna make it

>>15931835
>same happened to me
>deleted Facebook
>has never happened again

Honestly even when I was researching headphones for weeks I never got an ad for any.
Same is happening now I'm in the market for a laptop.

Fuckerburg is out to get you brehs.

>>15933267
I haven't had a facebook for three years and it still happened to me. I was talking about robot lawn mowers with my brother on the phone, I've never googled them or anything relating to gardening, and a day later I get an ad for one. Apple definitely sells iPhone data

>>15931835
When you're watching a youtube video and then start typing a thing mentioned in the video, the auto fill is tailored to it

so this is ive been getting a lot cuckold article

The real spooky thing to me is the idea that advertising has an effect even if you think like I do that it's usually trash and makes you like the product less. Regardless what you believe ads rely on your subconscious to file away that stupid jingle, slogan, etc until you need something, and the product or brand will come to mind if you see it enough. It's an idea originally developed to make people believe propaganda, and it works.

>>15933644
Mere exposure effect and all that jazz

after I fell down my bike and sprained my wrist I got wrist protector ads on my fb. weird how that works

>>15931835
Think of satoshis private key

3 days ago I was violently ill in bed and made no searches all day. I've suspected for a while it was a marijuana induced condition (CHS) so I googled "cann" and "cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome" instantly came up. Spooked the shit out of me and made me wonder if they were recording my vomiting sounds all day and plugged it into some sort of predictive software

>>15931835
You didn't just "think" of it. You either watched content that is related either by place,subject matter or event. You think it's telepathy because you cannot remember what you searched. These ads can search back years of data that you have typed in and compiles everything that is similar. That search you made for an obscure indian food cooking video 3 years ago on your google account? They still remember.

Haven't you guys noticed how lazy the commercials in our dreams have gotten lately.

>tfw don't experience any of this
t. /g/

>hold LINK
>keep draming about how LINK will increase in price
Is Sergey running ads in my dreams?

>>15931835
>having car troubles
>thinking about how in the fuck I am going to do
>haven't even googled it yet
>Scotty Kilmer vids pertaining to my problem right up at the top of my youtube suggested videos

Every time. How in the fuck?

>>15932677
You aren't even real, faggot.

>>15934003
Holding saturn cube token, surprised occultists are fucking with him.

Don't worry i'm sure your >>#7777777 wasn't just a script get by sirgay

>>15932700
Kek

>>15934020
Yeah this guy is straight up bullshiting.
He was actually assigned to monitor you.
I know because I work next to his cubiccle and I am the one assigned to monitor OP.
Me and your monitor have been Streetshitting bodies since we wear 4 and we used to masturbate our bigbong penus while spying the slutty biatch tittiez maids bath outside.

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>>15931835
Look up Roko's Basilisk. It's about that.

>>15931835
>giving kikes your info and thought patterns
anon I...

>>15932953
Chinlink cannot do anything with data. You have been brainwashed

>>15934003
It's never going to a price you want.
It will never even hit 4 bucks again

>>15934007
WHY THE FUCK are people not blocking Ads on everything???
YouTube.... Download 'YouTube Vanced'
It's literally YouTube premium with everything else you could ever want.
Ads literally anywhere else? Download 'Blockada'
You don't guys getting cucked by ads it's moronic

>>15931835
You too? I knew it could hear me because YT recommended shit I spoke about but never looked up anything related to it. And now I've gotten the feeling its in my head.

>>15934770
Exposed bitch at

https://imgur.com/rt5hhpG

am i being memed or do you guys unironically browse the internet without adblockers?

i like it

>>15934644
YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BLACKMAIL.

>>15933644
Their concerted efforts to make me like rap music and football have failed spectacularly

>>15931885
I used to think that too until I got an add for a laundry basket while being next to one. My phone’s camera wasn’t facing it

>>15933644
Bad advertizing is the stuff that makes you think "fuck these spammy fuckers and their gay ads, am not buying from them ever"
Good advertizing is the stuff that makes you think "I dont watch tv, but I should buy one because I can always stream shit on it and watching my big tiddy animu will be comfy"
Genius advertizing is when you buy something thinking that it was your idea, that you have the money and the need, when in reality yesterday you didnt think about TVs at all and today you really want one.
They have think tanks getting paid millions of dollars for a single ad that you will only see for a couplw of seconds while scrolling faceberg, and believe me, they get their money's worth.

t. work in marketing for teams that get paid millions of dollars per ad. The shit I saw made me seriously consider getting off the grid.

>>15931835
all your search and browsing habits are collected and analyzed. then they make recommendations based on what polled well with people similar to you. if you use chrome or an android phone you're already sending them all your shit. If not cookies take care of the rest. modern consumer and media culture is designed to shepherd people into all liking the same thing. Marketing strategies have become very advanced and even drive life for some people. They are very good at making you spend money on useless shit you don't need. Target even guessed that a teen girl was pregnant and sent maternity offers in mailers to the house, outing the kid to her parents. welcome to the future.

also try sleeping with your phone under your pillow. enjoy the nightmares lol

>>15935059
>believe me, they get their money's worth.
Why should I believe you? You're an anonymous rando with zero credibility making standard npc statements.

>>15931918
i click on all ads and proceed to checkout but never buy anything just to fuck with their algorithms. it's the little things in life

>>15932917
Governments and banks, especially when in cahoots, are a concern. But all those other companies trying to sell me chairs or holidays or fast food or luxury cruises are a bunch of jokers. The most dangerous thing I do is post on 4chan, an obvious data collection honeypot.

>>15932700
Kek, fuck they are watching me? Keep a sticker over your webcam when you're not using it, only way to be sure.

>>15931835
Think about a girl I like. She texts me the next day to hang out.

>>15935183
found the Chad

>mfw blocking all ad tracking, reporting every single ad as offensive
>the only ads I see are for hilariously irrelevant bullshit like office equipment and obscure medical devices