Paranoia strikes deep.

[Swede]

I was at work and a couple of coworkers were discussing how to cover a trip hazard were the newly laid carpet met the concrete floor. Ramps, or whatever. I had no idea, so kept on to get a coffee. I did not have my phone.
The next day, I get ads for various ramps on facebook. WTF?
Just imagine what "they" know about us.

[MLAA]

1. Yep, ever since the vaccine slipped in those computer chips into us.... 🙂

[Swede]

2. Ha ha.

But seriously, I'd guess algorithms would connect me to a coworker, and pass this on to Facebook?

[Towlie]

3. Well, for what it's worth...

 
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... is the name of that song.

[MLAA]

5. For what it's worth, I love that song!

[Scrivener7]

4. I was once watching a TV show where the scene was a fox hunt, with the dogs and the

fox-hunt-y type music and the bugle.

Within minutes, a bunch of ads for horse feed showed up on my phone.

I immediately turned off all location, listening etc capabilities.

I know I am not significant, and their knowing where I am and what I am saying makes no difference to the world at large, but it completely creeped me out.

[DFW]

6. I think all "smart" phones are full of unwanted software

My wife once stopped outside a store in our small town near Düsseldorf to call a friend. As soon as she hung up, her phone pinged with an ad for the store where she had just been standing.

[11 Bravo]

7. Into your life it will creep.