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Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads (futurism.com)

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[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I believe it was the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma (2020) that demonstrated exactly this in an experiment with a woman who willingly participated. Researchers showed how browsing data and search history can be used to tell when someone might be more vulnerable or persuadable (she had had a miscarriage during the experiment, which of course was very exposed due to search history), which can then be used to serve ads promoting beauty or health/dieting/fitness products.