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There have been similar rumours about Facebook listening to what you are saying and using that in order to show targeted ads. For example, you talk about tennis, and suddenly you get an ad for tennis supplies. No one has ever been able to prove that, though, and it is likely a result of a coincidence, since you get a lot of ads, and social media is really good at profiling. Maybe you have been thinking about boys more often recently, causing you to go back to sites like this, whilst also causing you to look slightly longer at videos with boys. And TikTok definitely picks up on the second thing, which triggers more pedophile oriented content. However, TikTok is known to be basically spyware, so I wouldn't put it past them to spy on you outside of the app.  |