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Robin198 · 2024-05-13T21:05:15+00:00

I’m sure my phone reads my mind. I don’t mean algorithms/listening via Siri /cookies etc I don’t have Alexa etc and I have had targeted adverts for subjects I have only thought about. I’m sure of it. or am I just losing it. I am aware I sound crazy. I’m not sure I recognise myself from this post! ps I’m not into conspiracies/foil hats etc I just really think my phone knows too much 😂

seller2456 · 14/05/2024 07:41

VestibuleVirgin · 14/05/2024 03:25

My friend and I often find this! We'll be yattering away about a place/thing, and shortly after, be innundated with related ads/posts, etc. We are on different networks, different operating systems, yet happens.
Perhaps we should start discussing premuim binds - Ernie may be listening!

This is not what the op meant though.

nfjffj · 14/05/2024 07:27

KrisAkabusi · 14/05/2024 06:56

Confirmation bias. You thought about it, now you notice it more. You probably saw an ad for it before, but because you had no interest in it, it never registered. Think if the thousands if ads you saw this week. Do you remember all if them now? It's the same reason why if you buy a new car, you'll suddenly see the same model everywhere.

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I’d 100% have remembered it because it’s very specific, something linked to an area I’m interested in, and I was surprised that I hadn’t heard of it before (a retreat linked to a hobby that I have). The magazine was about that hobby, thus the mention in it, but I’d never seen anything online about it before so the timing was very coincidental.

KrisAkabusi · 14/05/2024 07:02

Foxyaus · 14/05/2024 04:07

Phones "talk" to each other. For example, we had a friend visiting who had just become a dad to a beautiful little boy, that night, my phone was inundated with baby and breastfeeding ads and internet search suggestions.
It's creepy.

It's because you (and most people) have location services enabled. Your phone knows that people that visit you have been searching for baby-related items, so it's serving you those ads as well in case you're interested.

ZebraZone · 14/05/2024 07:02

Foxyaus · 14/05/2024 04:07

Phones "talk" to each other. For example, we had a friend visiting who had just become a dad to a beautiful little boy, that night, my phone was inundated with baby and breastfeeding ads and internet search suggestions.
It's creepy.

Or their phone connected to your WiFi

Enko · 14/05/2024 06:59

Op I'm currently getting adds for tattoo equipment I'm not into tatoos and nor do I wish to make them. I've also not looked at tatoos. I miss adds I might like 😀

stayathomer · 14/05/2024 06:59

I have definitely thought, ‘must check out such and such’ without talking to anyone about it and suddenly it’s in my ads. And not something related to what I’d usually look at!! So strange!!!

Scratchwarrior · 14/05/2024 06:57

Yes I've had this too. I don't mean it's just overheard conversations or ànything related to searches, TV, places etc. It's actually thoughts. I was wondering if AI has got v smart at reading body language, eye movements etc??? I don't know, but it has happened to me.

KrisAkabusi · 14/05/2024 06:56

nfjffj · 14/05/2024 04:45

This has happened to me too, a few times.

A few weeks back I read something in a physical magazine - in my head - and a couple of hours later an advert popped up for it online! It was something I’d never heard of before reading it, so not something common, and the magazine was a few months old.

Confirmation bias. You thought about it, now you notice it more. You probably saw an ad for it before, but because you had no interest in it, it never registered. Think if the thousands if ads you saw this week. Do you remember all if them now? It's the same reason why if you buy a new car, you'll suddenly see the same model everywhere.

willWillSmithsmith · 14/05/2024 06:32

Yes definitely. Me and my son sometimes deliberately talk about things to see how long it takes for ads to pop up, we’ve noticed YouTube does it as well.

I have also felt it reads my mind too!

nfjffj · 14/05/2024 04:47

VestibuleVirgin · 14/05/2024 03:25

My friend and I often find this! We'll be yattering away about a place/thing, and shortly after, be innundated with related ads/posts, etc. We are on different networks, different operating systems, yet happens.
Perhaps we should start discussing premuim binds - Ernie may be listening!

This is a definite thing. I’ve turned off microphone settings so it shouldn’t happen, but it still does 🙄

nfjffj · 14/05/2024 04:45

This has happened to me too, a few times.

A few weeks back I read something in a physical magazine - in my head - and a couple of hours later an advert popped up for it online! It was something I’d never heard of before reading it, so not something common, and the magazine was a few months old.

Noguarantees67 · 14/05/2024 04:32

Do you know I had this very same thought yesterday! Crazy!

I can understand it when the algorithms produce advertising connected to searches but yesterday I was thinking to myself that I might have a certain health condition and I am 100 % certain that I haven’t searched for it or discussed it with anyone.

And yet up pops information on this particular disease! Spooky!

Foxyaus · 14/05/2024 04:07

Phones "talk" to each other. For example, we had a friend visiting who had just become a dad to a beautiful little boy, that night, my phone was inundated with baby and breastfeeding ads and internet search suggestions.
It's creepy.

LauderSyme · 14/05/2024 03:36

Not insane. My phone has read my mind too 😮

VestibuleVirgin · 14/05/2024 03:25

My friend and I often find this! We'll be yattering away about a place/thing, and shortly after, be innundated with related ads/posts, etc. We are on different networks, different operating systems, yet happens.
Perhaps we should start discussing premuim binds - Ernie may be listening!

PossumintheHouse · 13/05/2024 22:07

Yeah, it's sort of reading your mind. A lot of the time your searches will relate to those things you are thinking about but not saying out loud.