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Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) (lifehacker.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I changed the title from "Spying" to "Eavesdropping" because the article actually directly supports that it is "spying" on you, just not listening.

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Because Amazon just have a shit algorithm. They don't distinguish single purchase items but their algorithm is skewed to try and get you to come back to get the things you got in the past.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 7 points 14 hours ago

Oooo close. It's a shit algorithm that favours the company that paid the most for the spot. So people rely on paying for a good spot to get promoted on the most minor fucking chance of someone buying their shitty item. I heard someone say the average best item you search for is found 17th place.

They're scamming the buyer and the seller and profiting off of being terrible for everyone.