Targeted Ads -- How Do They Know?

[Irving]

People have been talking about this for years now. Where they have a conversation where a brand name is said, and then they get ads for it.

[Irving]

People have been talking about this for years now. Where they have a conversation where a brand name is said, and then they get ads for it.

This post makes me sound like I?m giving attitude. I?ve been hearing about it for years, but don?t know that I?ve ever noticed it happening to me. Probably because I don?t pay attention to ads at all. I do notice that if I ever look up some grill or something to replace for a customer, I get grill ads, but since I don?t look at ads or ever have any intention of clicking on them, it doesn?t matter to me what product they are showing.

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This post makes me sound like I?m giving attitude. I?ve been hearing about it for years, but don?t know that I?ve ever noticed it happening to me. Probably because I don?t pay attention to ads at all. I do notice that if I ever look up some grill or something to replace for a customer, I get grill ads, but since I don?t look at ads or ever have any intention of clicking on them, it doesn?t matter to me what product they are showing.

I know and now it's happening to me!

I always figured it was the apps but something's up.