Is someone listening to our cell phone conversations, and then showing ads on our computers about

[raccoon]

the businesses we mentioned?

Yesterday I was talking to a family member on my cell phone and I mentioned the Olive Garden. (She has a sore throat and I told her when I had a cold, I bought some chicken gnochi soup from the Olive Garden.)

Not long after--maybe an hour or so, I got on Yahoo and an Olive Garden video ad appeared.

Coincidence?

[ChromeFoundry]

1. I highly doubt it.

How would they link your cell phone number, perform voice recognition on your conversation, search the conversations topic for hits on advertisers, map that data to a Yahoo account, display the ad on your browser session.

Seems like a fairly expensive process to sell you a plate of pasta with a salad.

I get spam about Viagra, permanent male member enlargement, and 'Nikki' wanting to show me her pictures on Facebook... and I don't talk on the phone about any of those topics. I would place my bets on it just being a coincidence. The other option is that it shows up all the time, but you just noticed it because you were recently talking about it.

Install an ad blocker - and save some money on tinfoil. :)

:toast:

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. BWWAAAAAHAHA...ROTFFLMFAO!!!!

Seems like a fairly expensive process to sell you a plate of pasta with a salad....
You just made me spew about 5 ounces of coffee thru my nose with that comment, thanks for the belly-laugh.:toast:

Install an ad blocker - and save some money on tinfoil.

+ 10,000

[raccoon]

3. Thank you. Yeah, it sounded tinfoil even to me... nt

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4. Even if it were true, it's not logical to advertise something that you not only already know about

but are talking about. I thought that was the point of ads in the first place.

Although, we are talking about it here because of that ad, so maybe...