This Should Not Be Allowed.

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Many times this is happening. Private innocent conversations we are having in the house where we have not even mentioned to anyone else, let alone mentioned the subject online are suddenly coming up as online adverts.
It is NOT a co-incidence as the subject would never normally be seen up as an advert for products relating to the topic.

So who is listening into private conversations and posting these adverts up as suggestions?

Cortana, Siri, Alexa, Google Home, Roku streaming devices, Smart TVs. Anything remotely recent that can take a voice command, you will want to turn off those settings. You will also want to look up privacy settings and disable any data collection you can find. A lot of Apps will also feed off this information separate from device settings, kind of like if you link accounts or use apps on Facebook, they will usually pull your data if you agree to use them. There are some guides online that can highlight the settings you need to disable, but you will want to look it up per individual device. This is why "net neutrality" and similar protections are important, not to mention removing things like the patriot act that invade privacy. We took a big hit to net neutrality a few years ago and it shows.

The use of ai, data mining and data analytics are now common place among people in marketing.

Such data mining collects the data, ai and data analytics analyses the data, the marketing people make the ads, and the ai tells the ad fields in the web pages you visit what ad to place based on the data they have collected on you.

You tube do it, loads of websites do it.

Every time i watch a you tube video, i get adverts from a website that teaches bass playing, because i have previously clicked on the bass player youtube channel.

If someone else watched the same you tube video, they would get an advert for something that their into.
Its intelligent advertising, tailoring the adverts to the user, to maximise potential for sales/profit.

There should be laws against electronic snooping . Hmmm.... thinks there already are ? Search settings in yourmachine open apps and programs , as you click on them. Turn off micro function to everything ..unless. You have phone apps. Then it’s different . And don’t let the pop up box “ turning off this feature may affect functionality of the app or program .” If you want features of that app you can always go back and turn the microphone on temporarily.

The wonders of the,“ internet of things “ has grown , outta control already .

Beware of. Future thought crimes ....?

Any smart phone with a microphone can cause this, and I think any laptop or tablet with a microphone as well. It's happened to me many times just being near a tablet or smart phone. Yes, it's very disturbing and upsetting.

I can't find anything to turn off the microphone. I could take the tablet apart and if I can find it, I can cut the wire to it.