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Nice try Mark. Jokes aside, these issues are happening way too often for it to just be a coincidence. I've seen multiple friends and strangers, as well as myself, reporting that they were talking about something and then an ad shows up about that. EDIT: typo
Nice try? Read this first: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
did you invite her to come see the open house by texting her "hey, wanna come see an open house"?
if you mean whatsapp, the content of messages is not available to whatsapp/facebook systems (it's end-to-end encrypted).
I don’t buy the “end to end encryption” argument. If the app used encryption for the benefit of their users it would absolutely make no sense for Facebook to buy them for billions. The reason FB did so anyway is that they have a workaround the E2E encryption like described above.
A totally plausible explanation for this (as plausible as any Amazon Echo passive speech recognition ad targeting theory) is that she's been seeing these ads for weeks, but they were completely irrelevant and her mind filtered them out until she happened to have house hunting / martial arts movies on her mind after these events.
Start by switching to iOS, then for each app she installs make sure location permissions are denied. On the laptop, make sure uBlock Origin is installed.
Cellphone tower is similarly equivalent to location.
Did either one of you login to amazon, Facebook, google, etc on one of the other persons device? If so there is likely still a tracking cookie associating you with her device. And your searches are causing her device to be targeted.
I'll guess that the following join keys could be used:
IP address or IP address subnet Physical location / postal address Known family or romantic relationship Offline key match such as use of the same credit card
Start by switching to iOS, then for each app she installs make sure location permissions are denied. On the laptop, make sure uBlock Origin is installed.
IP address is sort of equivalent to location. Cellphone tower is similarly equivalent to location.
Cell phone towers don’t correlate to IPs at all; the IP layer is added way above all that at the GGSN in the carrier’s network, which doesn’t even know nor care which tower you’re connected to.
did you invite her to come see the open house by texting her "hey, wanna come see an open house"?
if you mean whatsapp, the content of messages is not available to whatsapp/facebook systems (it's end-to-end encrypted).