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Big Brother gets a pass this time

  • privacy
  • ai
  • embedded

I was working on an embedded project and my fyp caught up at some point.

Literally my feed is now surfacing embedded systems, Seedstudios, RTOS, and IoT content I never explicitly queried. And I am pretty sure I only opened PIO library docs, Espressif, and Google. The only signal source was chat convos.

I believe that should not be sufficient for this level of behavioral targeting. Genuinely curious how they did this and how did it leaked out to the algorithm.

I would usually be concerned at this point but the content quality is high either way, so the omnipresent, all-seeing Big Brother that George Orwell warned us about gets a pass this time.

This is better than getting recommended with AI slop shit.