Algorithms Know You Without Listening

Has this ever happened to you? You play darts at a friend’s place. You don’t search

anything online. Or you go to another friend’s garage, there’s a ping pong table.

Again, you don’t search anything. And the next day… your feed is full

of videos about it. No, your phone isn’t listening.

The truth is scarier. Algorithms don’t hear words. They read behavior. Where you go,

how long you stay, how you move, and who you’re around. Your phone can collect data even without

internet and upload it later. When you open the app again… the algorithm already

knows what to show you. This isn’t magic. It’s data. And it’s frighteningly