Oh it does happen, I’ve written software that uses your phone’s micropho.....no, no I didn’t. Forget it.

It's happened. I'm going to Florida in a month. We've chosen a city and that's about it, but I'm seeing all kinds of ads for things that I want to do that my wife, brother and his fiance wouldn't be interested in. It's probably going off what I'm talking about, and tracking back my search history

Totally has happened to me!!!

it evades you hmm...

i dont think they're reading our thoughts.. I believe they're implanting thoughts, ideas, even able to create whole agendas for us to follow.

Yes this.

Basically, the easiest way to make people question this idea is to ask them “how fast do you think your FB/IG/Twitter timeline loads the next post? And the after that? And the on after that?”

There was a thread about this yesterday with some interesting information. Can't find it now.

Idk. It sounds schizophrenic but I've had a couple of coincidences. Like the other day I could feel my period coming on and just as I scrolled down, there was a tampon ad. I wasn't searching for anything period/tampon related. I don't even use tampons. Kinda creeped me out.

Advertising AI knows you're starting your period.

This is an old article... makes it clear how intrusive data mining is.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/how_not_to_be_wrong/2014/06/09/big_data_what_s_even_creepier_than_target_guessing_that_you_re_pregnant.html

That idea is ridiculous... the power to do so would be far too lucrative to not be more exploited.

What is happening is that you are far more predictable and susceptible to subliminal marketing than you realize or want to admit. Nothing is reading your mind you are being prompted to think certain things.

You just have it backwards!

Or we all have it backwards and we are creating the ads by thinking of them. After all we are just beings connected by electromagnetic currents.

I doubt that. There are tons of marketers on Reddit and elsewhere posting threads to attempt viral marketing and power of suggestion... all it takes if for a tracker to know which of these you read on social media or the internet and what links you clicked to predict with some level of accuracy what you may be thinking about. I would say it is more “memetic marketing” than any sort of “mind reading.”

I very much felt this was happening to me but I’ve tried to test it by thinking of a few very random subjects and waiting for some kind of advertisement or random mention or news to show up and it never has worked in any of my “experiments”.

Reverse the process and see if it works!

Think of stuff you would buy and know you’d be eventually searching for with intent to purchase but don’t actually look any of it up and wait to see if it pops up.

Ok it’s hard to figure out something that I haven’t discussed, searched or viewed any related content. But I’ll try.

The last subject I was focusing on was a Misfits baby onesie. While I have been viewing baby clothes I knew it had been 3-4 years since I’d had any discussion or searched any content related to the Misfits or Danzig. Maybe a few times a month I listen to a Misfits song on Pandora or on a Spotify playlist, but I listen to hundreds of songs every month from every different genre and didn’t think it was enough to standout at all.

And I got nothing at all. I made sure to think about every day multiple times and also Misfits memorabilia & imagery but seriously got nothing.

Maybe that’s too fringe of an item?

Was talking about weed and getting stoned, next minute there’s ads on my phone for wiz khalifas weed farm game on the App Store lmao, it definitely happens - this is just one of my examples

Yeah I posted something like this on this sub months ago or a year but yeah I just had a talk tonight with my fam and they looked at me crazy I said it was way to far fetched to be a coincidence

There was another post about this. It's far fetched that it's possible to read our thoughts but more so possibly better ai listening to convos picking up on different things - my theory based on my example. Last year I tried to quit vaping by buying nicotine gum but it hurt my teeth so I stopped the gum and started vaping again. The other day was telling my friend I'm quitting vaping, said nothing about gum nor did I search for it. Next day I was thinking I want to try sugar free gum this time. I search "ice packs" on Amazon and on related items was sugar free nicotine gum....how it's related I have no idea just thought it was super spooky and it felt like Amazon was in my head.

Could be a coincidence. Could be listening to my quitting vaping conversation and somehow knows I want gum in stead. Noooooo idea. I can't think of any other examples but I know I have has it a few times where somethings popped up and I've thought "weird I was thinking about that"

The algorithms are predicting your actions not reading your thoughts.

Because they’re reading our expressions while we scroll our feeds.

The tv program “Towards 2000” featured software called “agents” over 20 years ago. These programs monitored all user behaviour and mapped patterns. The developers found with enough input their agents were soon dictating what people would decide in advance. (I think it was meal and exercise/timetable related at the time, due to technical limitations, but it could still output what people would decide to do in the following days.) The input side of the software was very simple then, as users had to manually input each decision. Obviously, with current resources these agents could operate autonomously and without user interaction, or knowledge.

https://pastebin.com/6MW6eWNH If you think thats weird. This is pretty fucking relevant.

Yes all the time, I posted about this a few days ago a lot of people are skeptical until it starts happening to them