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A few minutes ago, I'm just reading the news from the RSS feeder app called Feeder and then suddenly I got a notification from x from Linux handbook which I was seeing in the feeder app. How?

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[–] Klame@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

We have known for more than a decade now that training machine learning models on huge user data sets allows to predict a lot of things with decent accuracy.

Twitter has been gathering a lot of data on all of its user, it is expected them to be able to predict interests like (and much more) this if you use their service.

No need to spy on your smartphone beside what you submit willingly https://hbr.org/2012/09/use-big-data-to-predict-your-c