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How did Netflix know I was gay before I did? (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1386796

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 10 months ago (12 children)

How did Netflix know I was gay before I did?

Honey

EVERYONE knew

[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

Seriously though, she chose a show that was randomly chosen by the algorithm, she watched it, and more content of that type was suggested to her by the algorithm.

This isn't quite rocket science.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

and more content of that type was suggested

That, or they might have figured it out from her search patterns alone—like how Target figured out that one woman was gregnant before she did.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

It was never proven that the baby was Greg's.

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