One of my kid’s professors was feeling sick and googled the symptoms to figure out what was wrong and was soon bombarded with maternity ads in the side bars of all the sites she later visited. Went to the doctor and found out she was pregnant, a week after Google had figured it out from her search topics.
A college kid and her roommates were sitting around their rental house discussing new curtains, all vocal, no phone searches, just musings. That night, ALL of them said they got ads for curtains on their phones and laptops.
We are way behind the curve on this..
Ha...I regularly loudly proclaim “Facebook sucks,” and “Google sucks” into my phone during the day...I’ve had similar experiences just talking about things and it shows up in a pinterest feed.