So you are having a conversation about relationships, breakup etc with your friend on WhatsApp.
Then you instantly see a tinder ad on the first YouTube video you play.
Coincidence or something else ? 🤔
(Every one has some similar experiences i, I bet)

@linuxxx what do you have to say?

@ceee They officially can't access content but let's look at some facta:

- owned by facebook.
- they store metadata and don't protect it much.
- Facebook (and thus WhatsApp) is integrated within the biggest mass surveillance program ever created.
- the app is closed source.
- the co-founder of WhatsApp recently left Facebook over a disagreement with zuck and another high ranking Facebook person because he couldn't agree on weakening the encryption for commercial purposes.

Not saying it's backdoored or anything because I can't prove that but just look at the facts and that should tell you something :)

@linuxxx they sure do,...thanks 😬

Seeing a tinder ad somewhere does not count as evidence of anything.

@electrineer as a coincidence ? 🤣

It's called confirmation bias.

@hashedram asking, if it is a coincidence or something else doesn't mean I have confirmation bias.
Had I said "this proves they steal data or something" that's confirmation bias.

@ceee the Google definition is a bit snarky.

Confirmation bias is the tendency to interpret information in such a way that is in favour of previously held beliefs or events.

If a tinder as had played at any other time it would've seemed normal. Since it played at the time of the chat, the brain interprets a causative relationship with the previous recent event.

So it definitely is an example of conf bias and there's nothing wrong with that, it's how every brain works.

@ceee just text in WhatsApp that you found a boyfriend. You'll see if you get a wedding agency ad

@afanneau 🤣🤣🤣🤣