Have you experienced the stated behavior? If you google pics of patio furniture, do ads for patio furniture start showing up?
It does on mine and it's a new HP Envy. And I run AdBlock Plus to no avail.
I believe ALL the major search engines have already done such long before the Lenovo thing.
I got friends who use their smartphones when they go out to shop and do in store comparisons and such on what they are looking for. Both Apple and Android users have reported Adds for the things they looked for will show up on Facebook when they use their laptops and they never did the search for such items except on their phones and never used Facebook on the phones while while they shopped. We've checked this many times over a course of several months. Bing and Google and Yahoo search all do the same things as far as the adds showing up on Facebook etc.
I've never tried it with my phone yet because I rarely go out to shop and just got my phone shortly before Christmas.
Yes. Try it. Look for anything to buy then pay attention to the ads that show up on pages such as yahoo.
I haven’t seen any ads. I use adblockplus which is supposed to block ads.
Happens more and more often. One weird thing that happens practically every time I order something on line is that very soon I start seeing ads for the exact item I ordered and that will go on for several days.
Seems the 'wires' are crossed somewhere when they show ad after ad for something that was already purchased.