<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Kollided</author><text>&amp;quot;A widespread myth regarding online advertising is that Google and Facebook are listening to us speak and showing ads on this basis. This is not true, even if it often seems to be.
There is a good explanation for this misconception. All of us have probably been part of a discussion on a specific topic—only to see online ads on the same topic immediately afterward. This is not a case of Google recording your speech and using it to target advertising.
The most common reason is that people take keener note of matters that they have just discussed. If your phone is showing you ads for holidays in Maui, you probably ignore them. However, if you have just spent time with your cousin in a café, discussing places to visit in Maui during your holiday, the same ad will grab you in a different way.
Another explanation is that your friend has been browsing for Internet content relevant to your discussion, even if you haven&amp;#x27;t. So, if you discussed haggis with your colleagues during your coffee break and you see a Facebook ad for delicious haggis in the afternoon, there is no conspiracy. Inspired by your discussion, your colleague has gone online for a genuine haggis recipe, from the same address space as your workstation. Sometimes, the most peculiar things have perfectly logical explanations.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;*If It&amp;#x27;s Smart, It&amp;#x27;s Vulnerable&amp;quot;, Mikko Hyppönen</text><parent_chain><item><author>jve</author><text>I want to ask here: Is there any study&amp;#x2F;experiment about what way say offline in proximity of our Android mobile devices leads to ads in Google?&lt;p&gt;My collegue made an experiment with his wife. Put their phones down, talk about different kinds of CRMs and DID NOT SEARCH for that stuff. Lo and behold, ads about different kinds of CRMs start popping up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m skeptical to these things and initially didn&amp;#x27;t believe. Then people I ask confirm - hey, yeah, I was only talking about it, now I get those ads! He said he was talking non-English, however CRM software names are english.&lt;p&gt;Coincidance?&lt;p&gt;I would love to hear some experiment results in this direction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Norway Fining Meta $98,500 per Day for User Privacy Breach</title><url>https://www.twipla.com/en/blog/norway-fining-meta-98500-per-day-for-user-privacy-breach</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sneak</author><text>I am so tired of these memes.  The network traffic out of common social media mobile apps is fully studied and understood.  You can even inspect it yourself if you like, using an access point, an http reverse proxy, a self-generated CA (manually installed on device), and some netfilter rules.  AFAIK the social media apps aren&amp;#x27;t doing cert pinning, but even if they are you can find the pins in the apk and patch your own in over top.&lt;p&gt;It would be obvious if they were exfiltrating audio data.  They are not.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jve</author><text>I want to ask here: Is there any study&amp;#x2F;experiment about what way say offline in proximity of our Android mobile devices leads to ads in Google?&lt;p&gt;My collegue made an experiment with his wife. Put their phones down, talk about different kinds of CRMs and DID NOT SEARCH for that stuff. Lo and behold, ads about different kinds of CRMs start popping up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m skeptical to these things and initially didn&amp;#x27;t believe. Then people I ask confirm - hey, yeah, I was only talking about it, now I get those ads! He said he was talking non-English, however CRM software names are english.&lt;p&gt;Coincidance?&lt;p&gt;I would love to hear some experiment results in this direction.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Norway Fining Meta $98,500 per Day for User Privacy Breach</title><url>https://www.twipla.com/en/blog/norway-fining-meta-98500-per-day-for-user-privacy-breach</url></story>