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Unpopular opinion: the weird ads got creepier after I switched my phone to Spanish
I switched my phone language to Spanish two months ago to practice, and my feed turned into stuff I never saw before. Now I get ads for a $12 garlic peeling glove, a tiny plastic device that curls shoelaces, and some kind of heated butter knife. None of it showed up when my phone was in English, which makes me think the algorithm just hands you a whole different pile of junk. Has anyone else flipped their phone language and noticed the ads change completely?
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mia74811h ago
Sounds more like the algorithm saw you poking around Spanish stuff and just threw random junk at the wall to see what stuck. Those ads are weird but they're not creepy, a garlic peeler and a butter knife are just dumb products someone is trying to sell you. Switch back to English for a week and I bet half of them follow you anyway.
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