I don't think most people who start a search with "roc" are looking for the lyrics to Rocket Man.

No, but of the people who were at the concert with you, a lot of them would have googled the same thing.

Everyones locations are being tracked, thats no secret. Your search suggestion was based on your location and what others there were searching.

this is the real answer. Your phone knew you were at a concert, knew others at the concert, saw they too were searching for rocketman lyrics, figured "hey, this guy was at the same concert with all these other people who are looking for rocketman lyrics, he's probably gonna be looking for the same thing" but in binary.

This is still fucking scary when you think about it.

turn your location device off on your phone.

Yes. And it's even happened to the extent that I've mentioned (and not searched recently) something at dinner table and then boom. Pandora ad that relates... It's fucked. Creepy.

As someone that works in online ads I feel like it's only a matter of time until I turn over a stone that shows me, yes, it has in fact been happening.

i had a short discussion about kale one night at the dinner table. not 10 minutes later on twitter, i have an ad promoted on my timeline about kale.

I made some lemonade once and got for an ad for it later that day. My GF bought some new converse(at a store) and was talking to me about them and I got converse ads. I don't shop for either of these items online and yet Google thinks I need these ads.

It's definitely happening, I've tested it. I have a smartphone that I literally only associated with an account for this specific purpose and I tested it by only speaking about very obscure and idiosyncratic products in the presence of the phone. It's happening.

Are you using Android? Make sure you disable OK Google, probably a lot of other things to disable, but that's a biggie.

Also, if your privacy settings aren't locked down in Gmail/Google search (and your mic is on and you allow your phone or browser to use the mic), this page might be a little scary.

It's just a link to Google Voice Search history - people were finding that they didn't realize that stuff was stored. You can delete it and block it - but a real issue if you don't even know it exists!

How's this for an eerie 'coincidence'.

Facebook suggested my pot dealer as a potential friend. Nothing - neither of our phones, never an email, NOTHING linked the two of us.

Still a haunting moment all these years later.

Maybe more than you'd like to say on an open internet forum, but how did you meet up with him without phones?

but how did you meet up with him without phones?

She uses constant 'burn phones' (throwaways), and all I had at the time was an old-school land line.

Ah, makes sense!

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All the time. it's become a running joke.

I have noticed it.

I Finally noticed this recently. I had my phone out and was listening to some talk putin was giving.

When I pick up my phone and start doing something the first ad I saw anywhere was for "Russian Brides"

Laughed/Got creeped out hard

For me, its actually what I was thinking. Trips me the f out.

You aren't crazy, me too

its happened quite a few times more than i care to admit however could just be coincidence; but then again look where i am

I ran into a guy at the hospital his week, hadn't seem each other in over twenty years, had a quick chat and went home. When i got home guess who the first person in the fb suggested people I might know list was? I don't have the fb application and use incognito mode when I use fb .so weird

Why the hell are you even using Alphabet Corp. products? Even Bing's search is safer.

had you searched for Elton John before or rock music lyrics?

I tried to search Clinton deleted emails and it stopped the auto complete after I got to the "T"

everyone wrapped in their own head through the illusion everyone agrees with them. that we are being confirmed.

this is why discussions in open forums are important. yet again they are able to pay a lot of smooth shills too.

Yup. All the fucking time.

My dad worked at Chevron gas station, every night he clocked off he had to type in this security code for his work for big bills. He went to text his coworker the security code for the safe and it was one of the first suggested words that popped up, it had a bunch of random letters and number. He was using Google Keyboard, never once typed the security code into his phone. He barely uses his phone other than call or text people. I find that quite odd.

Yep. I was discussing how one now needs to get a boat licence in Norway to drive even small boats. I open fb in chrome and the first ad was boat licencing courses. Now the interesting part is that my phone was switched on, but not logged in. It had restarted itself and I just had it in my pocket with the password log in page open. I hadnt even put the password in when these conversations were being held.

edit. may I add that I am not into boats. it was a random conversation. I have never typed anything into my google search engine about anything connected to boats.

Yes, I have. I can't remember the exact ad, but I know it showed up on my FB feed minutes after he and I mentioned it.

It went something like this: Me; I wonder where you could buy (whatever the item was) Him: I don't know. Not sure where to look.

We probably said a couple more sentences about it. I wanna say it was some kind of craft supply. I opened up my phone, clicked chrome because I don't have the FB app, and the ad for the thing was right there.

It really freaked me out. So much that I showed my husband my screen and I said to him "I didn't Google that. It's like my phone heard me."

It has happened a few times since then, but never so creepily. Other times could be explained with other Google searches or posts on social media. That one time though, it was eerie.

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I first noticed this on my kindle a few years ago. Our toilet was having issues and I had a brief discussion about it with my husband. The next time I picked up my kindle the home screen ad was for a toilet. It gave me the chills.

I've since been very aware of it and see ads that relate to what I was just talking about constantly.

I was at a bar that had a devil painted on the wall. I took a selfie with it on "social media A" saying "hail satan". At another bar, a friend asked where I saw myself in 10 years, and I answered "machine learning projects".

I log into "social media B", and I am met with two ads. One is for a Satanic group, and the other is for machine-learning. This is bullshit.

I may need to start disconnecting batteries, and only turning on my phone to make calls.

Yes! This happened to me twice yesterday. I was driving and mentioned a type of animal several times to my wife and kids. A few hours later when I brought up Google there was a search for that animal. I just thought my wife had done it.

Maybe more than you'd like to say on an open internet forum, but how did you meet up with him without phones?