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OhhhJa posted...

Your smart TV probably has some account that is linked to an account on your laptop though. That's probably what it is

Except I didn't set anything up along those lines. No apps, no accounts, no access.

So if something like that does exist, it means that my smart TV (which was never allowed permission to use a wifi network and is supposed to be completely offline) somehow located my laptop and burrowed into it like a parasite. Or my laptop has somehow gone looking for unconnected hardware within a nearby radius and established secret connections to it that it refuses to admit to me.

Either way, it would mean that something which shouldn't be spying is spying, and passing info on to something it shouldn't be talking to, so it's still fucked up beyond belief regardless.

LinkPizza posted...

But that doesnt explain why people are mad that she played a flute

Because people are stupid.

Clear proof that peanuts make you immortal.

Also evidence that "peanut allergies" are part of a scheme to render poor people incapable of benefiting from it, so only the rich can live forever. Probably involves vaccinations or chemtrails or something.

I actually know someone in real life who named his daughter Sage Genesis.

I always assume at this point that something in my house is spying on me. I'll be talking about something completely random downstairs, then later I'll go upstairs and like four rooms away to where my laptop is and YouTube will recommend something directly related to what I was talking about.

Like in your example, if I mentioned Scribblenauts in my downstairs conversation, the next time I go on YouTube I'd see at least one Scribblenauts-based video, in spite of never having seen a single Scribblenauts video in my recommendations in the last five years, nor having looked at any videos that would even remotely connect to it.

Can't even blame the ubiquitous smart phone that's probably spying on everyone else, because I don't have one. Or an Alexa, or anything else that you'd usually suspect to be listening. Even my cable box is like 10 years old.

I do have a smart TV, but I've never given it the password to my network and have never set it up to connect to the Internet at all, so in theory it shouldn't be able to talk to anyone either. So I have no idea how the hell YouTube seems to figure out what I've been talking about unless they've planted bugs in my house somehow.