An ex of mine said one day she might want to get into mountain biking, off handedly.
So I setup a spreadsheet comparing some equipment. Immediately I got hit with mountain biking ads. Like, within hours YouTube started showing me channels about mountain biking. Ads on other sites were now centered on mountain biking.
Why this matters? I purposely obfuscate my tracking data. So Google really glomps onto changes and it gets very obvious when the algorithm gets new information. I've used it as an example when showing people how invasive Google's data harvesting is.
One time I took a bunch of photos and videos then shared them with a person at a talk via Google Photos. Within minutes the content of those photos was a recommended video on YouTube.
Google is absolutely harvesting data across entire Google accounts. There is plenty of evidence of it. Also, this is expected behavior from an advertising company. I have no idea why people defend Google.
An ex of mine said one day she might want to get into mountain biking, off handedly.
So I setup a spreadsheet comparing some equipment. Immediately I got hit with mountain biking ads. Like, within hours YouTube started showing me channels about mountain biking. Ads on other sites were now centered on mountain biking.
Why this matters? I purposely obfuscate my tracking data. So Google really glomps onto changes and it gets very obvious when the algorithm gets new information. I've used it as an example when showing people how invasive Google's data harvesting is.
One time I took a bunch of photos and videos then shared them with a person at a talk via Google Photos. Within minutes the content of those photos was a recommended video on YouTube.
Google is absolutely harvesting data across entire Google accounts. There is plenty of evidence of it. Also, this is expected behavior from an advertising company. I have no idea why people defend Google.