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0 pointssam_goody4y ago0 comments

I doubt Voltaren is advertised commonly enough that he got ads before.

I no longer have a Android phone, but too frequently I would buy something offline and have the item follow me - including impulse buys and things that I definitely didn't look for online.

It happened with things I would talk about as well on occasion. I joked in front of my phone about visiting Greece, and a few minutes later auto-suggest in Google offered me "How much.. [is plane tickets to Greece]"

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im3w1l4y ago

Keep in mind that he is some guy on the internet. There are lots of people on the internet. While it's unlikely for it to happen to him in particular, it's not that unlikely that there is someone on the whole internet that it happened to. Now I'm not saying that it is a coincidence, merely that as far as I can tell it could be.

FredPret4y ago

I had the same experience with my prevous phone - a Samsung. Talked about a product that would normally be the furthest thing from my mind with a friend who took an interest in it.

Next day, voila, the whole internet is plastered with ads for this product.

I switched to an iPhone.

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