Yesterday, I was listening to this podcast in which Steve Gibson shared a funny story about a retired microsoft engineer who now runs a youtube channel and his program in assembly. anyways today that guys channel is now in my youtube feed. how is it possible ? Coincidence ??

  • @Ninjabread
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    83 years ago

    Many, many apps and websites use Google analytics. So it’s certainly possible that Google knows you listened to the podcast. But the problem with “big data” is that they don’t need to know specifically that you did, they can infer from large amounts of data that you likely listened to it.