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by msadowski 2771 days ago
It hapenned to me on two different occasions that I've been discussing a topic with a friend (one that I never searched for) that was later shown to me as an ad. In one particular case he told me of metal casted spinners (like the one in Ibception). About two days later I saw an ad for this. I don't believe this could be a coincidence.
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Did he search for them and we're you chatting on Facebook messenger that day?
He doesn't even have facebook and he said he didn't search for them. We talked in person while hiking, only our phones were in our pockets. I also never had any facebook applications installed on my phone (except WhatsApp). Also I saw the ad about 2-3 days after we had this chat. I should also note that we were talking in Polish.
What prompted the conversation?
You probably should believe it.
I'll be the first one to buy a mobile phone with a hardware switch for microphone, cameras and the speaker now.