Random sidebar adverts

[Zaphodsotherhead]

I don't usually take much notice of these (unless I click on one by accident because my mouse has 'drifted'). But sometimes they seem so random!

I just had one that had a picture of cattle on and a logo asking me if I'd considered the 'feed gap'. I was vaguely intrigued and clicked on it. It was for cattle feed (I have no cows and don't live on a farm), telling me to check that my cows could reach their forage through the feed bars. I have absolutely no idea what has triggered that ad to appear.

Anyone else got a random (and slightly bizarre) ad appear?

It isn't really random but I was helping somebody look up a particular item on Google on a computer in a different house the other day. I had Ebay open and logged in in another tab because I had also been showing them how to use Ebay. I came home and used my own computer, and I got an advert for that very book, which isn't very relevant to my demographic and which I have never searched for on my computer. The only way that could have happened it Ebay gathering data from other tabs and feeding them back to Google.

Also I know when other people in the house have searching for houses online because I get the exact same houses advertised to me. It's worrying when you think about it.

I can only imagine that they think you fit into a demographic that's statistically more likely to be a cattle farmer?

Not a hope in hell! I live alone (unless the dog has learned to Google and has also applied to Agricultural college). I worked with cows over forty years ago, but it doesn't really crop up much in every day conversations/google searches!

I just live in the countryside, that's all. Maybe everyone who lives in the countryside is getting these cattle feed ads, on the offchance?