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Last night wife and I were watching Tosh.   Watched like 3 episodes in a row laughing our ass off.   Into the third episode I'm panning down thru Instagram and all of a sudden the Tosh page comes up.  I've never once looked him up on the internet, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.   There literally should be absolutely zero cookies on my phone or computer with Tosh.   Probably just coincidence but damn that's creepy.  

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Active listening has been a thing for years, especially with iphones. Wife and I will have a conversation about patio furniture and boom, ad for patio furniture pops up on her phone. Could cite dozens of times we noticed it.  

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3 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said:

What platform we're you watching it from?

Neal

Direct TV.   This TV is relatively old and would not be considered a smart TV.  In other words its connected to our network but just for ordering movies.  

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33 minutes ago, Anler said:

Active listening has been a thing for years, especially with iphones. Wife and I will have a conversation about patio furniture and boom, ad for patio furniture pops up on her phone. Could cite dozens of times we noticed it.  

Yep, its been a thing for a while now.

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6 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said:

I'm pretty sure DTV sells viewing and app data.

Neal

Probably.   I was just surprised it was that quick.   Hadn't watched Tosh in months.  

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5 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said:

With packet inspection your ISP could read most ITC traffic, such as unsecured connections to this site.  :bc:

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Sounds like ISP is a real fucking faggot ass pig

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15 hours ago, steve from amherst said:

Can ya imagine the kind of ads poo 550 gets

Ok thats fucking funny......because its true.  

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