https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-is-absolutely-listening-to-your-conversations-it-just-confirms-why-people-dont-trust-big-tech.html

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/4-things-facebook-google-dont-want-you-know-about-privacy-what-you-should-do.html

sugarwood, if you read post#12:
Many or most of these devices are on all the time listening to conversations, recorded and saved for extended periods, and have live humans reviewing private conversations meant to be private. GM cars have that plus remote door unlock and remote shutdown. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

The only question is why people haven't made a bigger deal of it already.

I see a lot of ads right now for Lollapalooza. I have no idea who 99% of the bands are. Google Chrome.

Or bing. Or duck duck go. Or anything other than the evil company that shall not be named. :D

I always see your logon as

SammyGoogleToo :)

I need to start talking about hot naked blond girls more often. :D

I know this is on a different tangent.

I was watching Shark Tank and there was a guy pitching his pizza. I did a Google search.

Five minutes later I visited my football site and there it was a Google ad for those, and other pizza, at Amazon.

For those who don't want anyone to know that you purchased a light bulb on the internet

https://www.brave.com/

Yea, that's how it works.
Welcome to 2012.

And you know that will bring up 300 pound sweaty women with peroxide hair.

I've often thought about testing this by having 4-5 conversations about something to see if I start getting ads for it, like "tennis rackets" or something odd....

I have noticed it happening for a long time. It was the speed at how fast it showed up. I went from the pizza search to the football site and it was there on the small limited scope (OU sports) message board.

That would be my luck!

What you're seeing is localized.

If you'd cleared your cookies after the search it wouldn't be there.

A lot of these "had a conversation and now I see adds for it", are from demographic data and who you know.

All it takes is your friend buying it, then talking it about it to you. Even if they hadn't said it if they know your friend was at the store for it, they know you as a person with things in common might also be interested.

It isn't so much the conversation, but where and who, the who both being demographic and what the who do.

Also, when a new product starts getting talked about; it is often from it trying to reach a large amount of people.

That's exactly correct. The algorithm is complex and relies on your network. The fact that you talked about it is just a coincidence. There are other items you've been shown that you did not talk about.

It’s not only ads but even the short cuts to google searches. I have absolute proof they are listening. My I pad is always on the coffee table in the living room. Yesterday an old 80s movie was on “summer rental” with John Candy. Me and my daughter started arguing about where it was filmed So I picked up my iPad and started to type. I typed “where was “ and it auto filled summer rental filmed. How the hell did that happen. Btw I was correct Clearwater/ St. Pete area.

How were you watching the movie?
Was it a VHS tape?

No it was on cable.

What kind of cable box?
Does your cable require any kind of login?

You don't think that Microsoft is in the big data business with Bing?