Friend of mine said this today,
“The other night, I did an experiment. I started talking out loud in my own home about a pool monitoring system. Shortly thereafter, Facebook sent me one ad after another about, yup, you guessed it, pool monitoring systems.
Who was listening to me? Was it you, Siri? How about you, Alexa? Google Mini, could you REALLY hear me all the way from the kitchen?”
A similar thing happened to me a few years ago. My wife and I were driving somewhere and I happened to mention that Adirondack chairs were more comfortable than they looked. Hadn’t mentioned or even thought of Adirondack chairs in years, never owned any, never shopped for any. Her phone was on but in her purse. Mine was turned off in the desk drawer at home where it spends 99% of its time.
Within a few hours we were getting ads on our home computer for, yup, you guessed it, Adirondack chairs.