Just listened to the podcast from Dec 20th 2019. Todd was talking about the topic of privacy and smartphones etc. He said he thought smartphones are not listening to you and do not serve you up add based on your conversations. I would have agreed up until 2 months. 2 months ago my wife and I were sitting on the couch talking about her car with my phone on the coffee table in front of me about 3 feet away. We were talking about the timing chain on her car might need to be replaced. This is a super random non mainstream topic. 20 mins later I was watching YouTube videos and guess what...... a banner add for timing chain repair came up. Yes it was that specific. My jaw hit the ground and I said Holy Fuck to myself. It was actually kinna creepy.
This is the only time this kind of thing has happened to me. But this can NOT be a coincidence since it was such a specific topic and the add was super specific.
Also note I had never did any Google searches for this topic. And I do not have an Alexa or Google home speaker in my house.
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