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I’m watching a 20 year old episode of Top Chef, and someone says he’s going to prepare twice baked potatoes. Never heard of that, so I pull out my iPhone and planned to search “twice baked potatoes.” All I had to do was type most of the word “twice,” and Google suggests “twice baked potato.” Top suggestion. How did Google know that’s what I wanted to know about? Is that what’s suggested when you type twic into Google?

Google algorithms adjust for the intelligence level of the user.

I was bitching about our senator John Tester to wifey , next thing I know Tester campaign ads start showing up.... so the answer to your question Hawk is the algorithms are listening through hour phone.... now when things get real and it's time to herd the maga people into the boxcars your phone will give you up!

So that would explain why Hawk has been correct for years before most here.... smart guy...

Exactly!

Mr. Potato head is a nosey SamuelLJackson.

I've literally never experienced that, so can't hep ya.

Yeah, now we're all afraida gettin run over by a black guy whilst carryin our nunchucks back ta unwrap our vacuum sealed shower pistol.

I have literally experienced it a few times over the years.... it's very creepy

I do think there's some spying on us via our phones and computers. However, I assure you that I have not even thought of twice Baked potatoes in a while prior to see this post. So I went to Google and typed in "twic" and "twice Baked potatoes" popped up. I'm guessing it's just a common search item.

I am sure Hawk is on their radar.....

Google, Alexa, Siri, TV, computer, phone, all connected. UR fug'd.

I wondered if that might be the case, which is why I asked. Interesting. Thanks for trying it.

We all need to learn the liberal talking points... that'll confuse them.....

LOL. Almost certainly.

Brother Hawk.... I would not dismiss it so easily....

You never heard of a twice baked potato? Wtf

What apps do you have on your phone that have permission to use the microphone?

You shouldn't be using Google for search regardless....

I'm no techi by a longshot... but will Duck Duck go and a VPN help eliminate this crap?

I got Twitch, Twice As Nice and twice baked potato at twice, nothing at twic.

Baked, but not twice baked. I wondered why you'd want to bake it twice.

^^^This^^^

Interesting.

Brother Fubar;
Good evening and almost Thanksgiving to you and yours, I hope the day treated you all well.

In the "for what it's worth" file, my good wife's phone usually is connected to the house wifi system and it's happened multiple times that we've been chatting about something and it'll appear on her FaceBook feed for sure. Possibly other places too, but in that forum it has happened.

Since I don't use my phone for much other than taking pictures or finding the pickup with a hunting GPS app, that's not happened to me, but i do get a monthly report telling me where I've been from some other app that I want to say came with the phone.

I believe that anytime I use that hunting app, they - whomever they might be - are able to track my movements or so I've been given to understand.

As a last bit of tid on the subject, a few of my more tech savvy friends always have any built in computer cameras covered unless they're using them. When I asked them about it, they were of the belief the cameras could be activated remotely in some instances.

On that one I'm not sure and am only repeating what I've been told.

This morning on our way up hunting, my friend, next door neighbor and hunting partner reported seeing an add while watching hockey that the new Hyundai will be able to be started with a phone app of some sort.

Neither one of us is tech savvy to be sure, but both of us saw a multitude of problems with that.

Anyways Brother Fubar, regardless of the technological advances which seem to surround us both for good and at times seemingly evil, I do hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving down there.

Dwayne

I got TWIC card. Mine came in the mail last week so maybe it's residual of when I was doing that work?

I've literally never experienced that, so can't hep ya.I typed them taters into DDG on iphone (safari) w/adblock plus and TBP was #2.

Extensive monitoring of cell choices for one thing. And extensive uses of abilities I am not aware of. I began paying attention when a conversation with my wife about some product or service while driving resulted in an immediate spam on my cell phone. Preference detection is literally the tip of this iceberg.

And the toothpaste is out of the tube

I have. I typed in "twic" and "twice baked potatoes" popped up first. Search engine algorithms also use what's trending and most popular searches to fill in the blanks. I'd guess this time of year lots of people are searching up potato recipes

Having said that, I've had experiences where we were discussing something, typed in a few letters, and what we were discussing popped up. And there's no way it was a frequently used search.

I sent an email containing info for a K9 handler, first time ever. RIGHT after that I got onto facebook and the line of "people you should know" pops up, with you know who in first place. F u c k i n g spooky......

Take a look at the Audible app user agreement permissions. It's not mysterious. They're listening.

Brother Dwayne,
Thank you my Canuck cyber buddy... happy thanksgiving to you also.

Night before Thanksgiving, probably half a million people googled the same thing as you. Google just playing the odds.

You could try googling it.

My wife and I mess with the snoopers all the time. We get ads to improve our love life(its great), repair our relationship( nothing to fix), and more. Put some noise in our files at the data center…

That microphone on your phone is listening.

I want a twice baked tater now darn it.....

You’ve missed out. Good twice baked are terrific.

Osky

Same.

I’ve also had music recommended for me on YouTube (owned by Google) based off of what someone else was playing at work in the background.

Meijer. A Michigan based store similar to Walmart mails me coupons based off of what I’ve bought in the past and paid for with a debit card. I don’t have an account or any links with Meijer other than paying with a debit card but they can trace it back to me and mail me coupons tailored to items I bought and mail separate coupons to my wife based on what she buys.

The store must keep a digital receipt of items purchased and the banks sell the contact info to the store but it makes you wonder who else they sell it to or is looking at it.

Everyone wants to sell you something.

This is what needs explanation.

Watching Top Chef?

Is your remote busted?

People will read a thread like this. Understand what's going on and then in 3 weeks post about how the campfire is running gay porno ads, selling anal bleach and man panties whenever they log in and never make the connection.

Adamant that it's Rick making money and not what's either on their phone or discussed in the home. Nope. Outside of those topics - being spied upon. Those topics are a mistake or native to the site....

Probably never heard of a chicken pot pie either.

That's strange, all I see is ads for guns, fishing gear, and heterosexual stuff.

Love me some twice baked taters!

Ron

Yeah, well out here in Colorado you've got to be careful about chowing down on anything with "pot pie" in the name.