I keep seeing ads for the very specific chemo I used to be on

I swear to god I've just thought of things and they appeared in ads online. I was talking to an old computer geek programmer kinda guy (I clean for him and orher help around the house because he's elderly. He's got a room full of wires and computers and all kind of stuff. He does some kind of work with scientists. I completely forget what at the moment.) recently about this, and he was talking about the things and computer processes it takes to do all of this. He was talking about just saying something, and ads pop up which happens to everyone all the time. It's not even your data being sold, you're being listened to somehow.

I know, right? I had something similar happen a couple of years ago, but it wasn't even because of something I had already bought. I was talking to my mom about my dad's dementia, and suddenly I'm getting all these ads on Facebook for dementia tests, pills, etc.

I wasn't even talking on the phone. I was talking in the same room as the phone.

Did you mention it by name on a phone conversation? Had that happen when speaking of a specific, not that common med on my cell. Next thing I got an ad for it on my time wasting game that was only selling ads for other game downloads prior.

Well, cheer up. They DON’T know everything.

I keep getting condom and lacy thong ads.

Clearly they don’t know me.

I like how you get ads for things that you already just bought.

You really think so?

With algorithms a keyword is all it takes.

Yes gross - usually just annoying but in this case tone-deaf...

These devices are listening to conversations and selling information to advertisers.