You know sometimes you're thinking of something, not even saying it out loud, and then an ad for it pops up on your screen? There's a claim that scientists have developed mind-reading nano particles that have been put in food and water, humans consume them and then they read our thoughts and of course, this being a capitalistic society, use our thoughts to try and sell us stuff.
What do you think?
My adblockers are always on but I had some kind of layout bug/issue so disabled them for a minute as I checked my CSS code for what might be causing an issue at that site. I googled something. I got an ad for Jewish singles. It freaked me out. Within the previous weeks in Gmail emails I had mentioned being Jewish and I made a joke about marriage.
It was a reminder to me that tech companies know a staggering amount about everybody who uses their products regularly which is most of the planet. And in most countries the companies have hardly any or effectively zero oversight because of their magic word: anonymization.