• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    I’ve been looking for a new job. Now I get ads for jobs. That’s actually nice, were it not that they’re always the same five shitty jobs every time.

  • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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    15 days ago

    GOOG giving it to META seems apropos considering how they’re respectively doing with their AI crap.

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    15 days ago

    And yet I can explicitly type the exact parameters for an item I’m looking for into Google or Amazon and I get flooded with bullshit that is not that thing.

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      15 days ago

      That’s because what you’re searching for is what you definitely want, so they know you’re likely click/buy it. But if throw a bunch of crap that you maybe might want before you get to it, maybe you’ll buy some of that too. It’s like how supermarkets throw a bunch of junk food in a checkout lane, maybe you’ll get tempted while you’re forced to stand there even though you just wanted to buy laundry detergent.

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      15 days ago

      “Oh you’re looking for a red KitchenAid blender type # 5KSB2073EER? Great! Here’s that 4 CD set of tradition Turkmenistan folk music you wanted.”

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        DDG is getting worse but it’s not this bad. I’ve tried Kagi’s free sample (about search 30/100 rn) and it’s excellent. I still don’t know if I’ll buy a subscription to it but I like the incentive model.

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        I mean, one must admit that a 4 CD set of traditional Turkmenistan folk music does sound pretty sweet.

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        15 days ago

        Ok. I’m adding that to my cart but I’m mad about it.

        Now show me the manual for the fucking blender you asshole.

        Blender tutorial noises

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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        15 days ago

        Sorry all these other companies paid us more to put their shit in front of your eyeballs than the one who sells the thing you want.

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          15 days ago

          Amazon’s primary revenue driver is selling the top spots in their search results. So it’s no surprise that when you search for something, you almost never see what you’re looking for. They have literally created a system that intentionally shows you what you’re NOT looking for in order for them to make a profit.

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      15 days ago

      Not until I finally buy something do I get floder with the right ads, at which point those ads are pointless.

      For all the data they have on us they sure are pretty ass at utilizing it.

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    15 days ago

    Air conditioning filters. I need air conditioner filters. My air conditioner filters are filthy. I need to buy air conditioner filters

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      15 days ago

      I searched for a car air filter the other day. I bought a car air filter the other day. I am still receiving ads for car air filters today.

      Shit’s dumb as hell.

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    Remember when people used to think we were crazy regarding advertising based on speech secretly recorded?

    I do this fun thing I’ve dubbed the “platypus test” to show people how crazy it is. If you open Instagram and scroll through reels while talking gibberish adding the word platypus every now and then you will eventually start seeing them in your feed. Its rather quick too, I managed to get results within 10 minutes.

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      I still think it’s bogus unless I see clear proof of it. That would imply your Instagram app somehow needs to bypass the kernel which let’s the system know when the microphone is being used (some OS let’s you know when mic or app is accessed real-time). That seems like an awfully open backdoor to microphone access.

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        Go try it out and let me know your results. Just for context I’m using GrapheneOS. And yeah I know some hardware backdoor would seem paranoid but consider the reach of said company.

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          14 days ago

          I have, repeatedly, because it’s not the first time I hear of this, only once did something similar to what I was saying appeared. Sounds like a coincidence to me.

  • The last two times I mentioned Little Sleazers, the LC app pushed notifications for random ass deals. Like immediately; not even some time later that I could think perhaps it was coincidental. “Little Ceasar’s sucks” phone dings.

    Also Pete Holmes new standup special talks about this. Makes me wonder how many people in that audience got ads for giant black jelly dildos specifically made for ass play. 🤔

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    15 days ago

    I wish Google would put so all their sitting soying spying to God good is use to improve their text prediction on their site swipe input.

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      Yeah it’s worked like it was vibe-coded by AI since long before LLMs became mainstream (I wonder if that’s bc they are the predecessors of LLMs in the first place?).

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        Weirdly, back in the dumb phone days, with T9 I could bang out texts way faster and more accurately so long as I wasn’t straying too far out of the dictionary. But it was super easy to add new words, and it would pick them up later.

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      I’ve actually turned off my autocomplete lately. It’s become too annoying… I’d rather make “your fingers are too fat”-mistakes than all the “God” and “ducking” every time. People only have to understamd about 80% of the words you write in order to understand the message. Si, a swnwnve kike thud id not thw ens og the wprld.

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    14 days ago

    Been thinking, this is a common trope in anime (using glasses/other objects to try to hear through a barrier), does this actually work?