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[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 103 points 2 years ago (12 children)

How did Netflix know I was gay before I did?

Honey

EVERYONE knew

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 72 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Seriously though, she chose a show that was randomly chosen by the algorithm, she watched it, and more content of that type was suggested to her by the algorithm.

This isn't quite rocket science.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

and more content of that type was suggested

That, or they might have figured it out from her search patterns alone—like how Target figured out that one woman was gregnant before she did.

[–] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has this story ever been confirmed by Target directly? As this happened in America and her father was outraged about it, it would have been awfully convenient, to “blame” the algorithm for “discovering”, she was pregnant. It takes quite a data analyst to figure out trends before someone even knows they are pregnant. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out a pattern for someone if they know they are pregnant and are just hiding it from their dad.

[–] what_is_a_name@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes. It’s many years in my past, but this was confirmed. Target still does their targeting but now scatter unrelated items in the ads to hide what they know.

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

target still does their targeting

Awesome sentence

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