Is Freesat blabbing to Google?

[classic33]

Do you still remove your phone battery @ColinJ?
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/is-your-kettle-spying-on-you.142865/

 

[MartinQ]

Try a new experiment?
Watch lots of programmes about xxx (fill in a suitable subject here) and see what google does?

 

[Gary E]

Yeah, that's a good idea. Google "XXX videos" and see what you get

 

[gbb]

There was a program or article on this subject the other week, it's Google et al forming predictive, behavioural information, it's the way forward apparently, they'll be able to (based o billions of bits of I formation collected) predict and target advertising specifically on almost individual behavioural tendencies.
It's quite scary in a way. There was a name for it...'something' capitalism.

 

[ColinJ]

Do you still remove your phone battery @ColinJ?
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/is-your-kettle-spying-on-you.142865/

I can't - I broke the phone with a removable battery. The replacement phone has a fixed battery.

Makes one wonder if the phone manufacturers are all in on the plot - ha ha!

There was a program or article on this subject the other week, it's Google et al forming predictive, behavioural information, it's the way forward apparently, they'll be able to (based o billions of bits of I formation collected) predict and target advertising specifically on almost individual behavioural tendencies.
It's quite scary in a way. There was a name for it...'something' capitalism.

I know the kind of things that Google are up to. I was just trying to work out HOW in this case.

Hmm, no chainsaws on YT on the phone but I have just been offered a video about Keanu Reeves. I watched a film starring him last night for the first time in many years ON THE TV! (If I had watched it on the phone, it would not seem quite so odd for Google to know about it.)

I will try my tablet now and see what pops up there...

 

[ColinJ]

I will try my tablet now and see what pops up there...

Ha - what pops up now is a message telling me to update the YouTube app on the tablet, but when I try, it doesn't work. It isn't telling me that the version of Android is too old, but that is probably the problem - bloody technology!

I'll see what YT comes up with on my second laptop instead...

 

[ColinJ]

YT on laptop #2 is doing a good job of suggesting stuff I am interested in, based on what I have previously watched/searched for on the laptop...

No chainsaws!

It was such a random thing, suddenly being blitzed by them last night. Let's see if me mentioning chainsaws, chainsaws, chainsaws, chainsaws here now instigates Chainsaw #2, Revenge of the Powertools on this laptop ...

 

[classic33]

YT on laptop #2 is doing a good job of suggesting stuff I am interested in, based on what I have previously watched/searched for on the laptop...

No chainsaws!

It was such a random thing, suddenly being blitzed by them last night. Let's see if me mentioning chainsaws, chainsaws, chainsaws, chainsaws here now instigates Chainsaw #2, Revenge of the Powertools on this laptop ...

Try "tree felling'.

 

[ColinJ]

I did a search for 'tree fellers' and I got The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...!

 

[ColinJ]

I did a search for 'tree fellers' and I got The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...!

PS It's a joke!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. Share a lot of intimation between them. It is why some I have completely stopped using, installed tracking blockers, and generally moved to search engines that respect privacy.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I did a search for 'tree fellers' and I got The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ...!

Then you searched tour fellers and got Amstrong, Wiggins, Merxx, and Sagan

 

[ColinJ]

I'm going to try something else this evening ... find a really obscure programme on a previously unwatched subject on Freesat and see if I start getting YT video suggestions on that subject.

Perhaps there has been a huge new marketing effort by the global chainsaw industry! Were any of you been getting chainsaw video suggestions on YT yesterday BEFORE YOU CAME INTO THIS THREAD?

 

[DaveReading]

I have recently started watching 'Barnwood Builders'. I watch it via a Freesat PVR.

How the hell do Google know that I have been binge-watching a programme featuring chainsaws!

How exactly have you been "binge-watching" the programme ? Presumably via some kind of on-demand facility rather than just watch scheduled showings on Freesat ?

 

[classic33]

"The Body Farm"?

They were looking at opening one down your neck o'woods.