How do the advertisements know that I am newly interested in something if I never typed it but casually talked about it around the house?

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I just got fired a month ago. I have not been doing ANY research on the next move but casually talk to my partner about going for a coding boot camp. I haven’t even updated my LinkedIn or anything like that.

Suddenly, I am served coding Bootcamp ads on Youtube, they show up on the little dedicated ads banners on websites and so on.

I am not referring to the more predictable situation where I search for true crime shows or so and have all these streaming services serving me ads based on my search history.

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Because these companies have data files on you that would the NSA cream themselves. Anyone you told could have googled it, and you get it by correlation. people who lose their jobs could be bumped into a category that then serves boots camps, gig work, other school..etc. you could have even just clicked on a few things related to it or something close, without even thinking about it or searching for it. Perhaps they are listening through the device as well. They say they don’t but giant companies are not exactly honest, so I don’t take their word for it.

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