Kubrenetes was the point I knew they were for sure sniping keywords from convos (or de-anonymizing me/my friends through proximity).
One of the guys I've worked with for years had been researching some container management stuff and found this... Company? Software? Method? And we talked about it briefly at lunch. I never searched it or anything related to it, not on my work PC nor any of my devices but sure enough not one week later wouldn't ya know it? Ads for kubrenetes courses and software started popping up for the next two months solid.
I watched a chick on YouTube explain the drama around some absolutely bonkers writers that make wolf erotica (it was a really good rant about people being insane) and even without either of us talking about it, because it was ON near my wifes phone she ended up getting months and months of "spicy wolf erotica" ads.
I guess there could be some weird extremely coincidence-riddled explanation besides mic use but, the simplest explanation usually is correct.
LOL
It's wild how much mental gymnastics people will do to convince themselves they aren't free-range tax-slaves. But then again billions of dollars go into this exact type of psychology to get this exact outcome.
mmhmm, extremely true. I am lucky that at least I enjoy the tax-slave job I have, a lot of folks don't. But the outright push from megacorps to snipe your convos and then push their ad-agenda is wild. Docker I think does the same basic thing and I didn't get a single ad for that, but I bet Docker isn't paying for ad space.
The scary thing is, folks like us see this and go "well that's sus", but how many folks running companies get a scenario like this and decide it """must be a sign""" and snag whatever they've been spoon-fed, regardless if it's actually good or not.