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Originally Posted by scottmandue View Post
With Alexa/Echo and all the other variants people are gobbling these things up they are not going away anytime soon. Many people suspect our cell phones, laptops, and smart TV's are spying on us so dunno if this is any worse.
Here's an item from about a week ago. My next door neighbor (a real tech-head) and his business partner were holding a conversation in the car on while driving back back from a meeting together. At some point, my neighbor mentioned that he was thinking about investigating the Peloton bicycle. He claims the conversation happened so early in his Peloton-consideration process that he'd never done any sort of search on the product, anywhere or at any time. And yet, upon returning home and using his laptop to get onto the internet, they they were: targeted Peloton ads, already waiting for him. And this only about a half-hour after the first time he'd ever even mentioned the product. He'd long suspected his phone was listening ... now he's convinced.

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