[raybb]

The author says the conversation was "total random discussion" but that seems rather unlikely. I think we all know how uncommon randomness is.

This discussion about listening came up a few years ago but about Facebook, who owns Instagram.

Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10360761

[registered99]

If his friend or whoever he was talking about this product, most likely it's in their tracking cookies from them googling it. This is especially true since they are familiar with the product.