Freaked out: Google just gave me a result that had it's own search terms on a music website I infrequently use, and one of the tags is my nickname and is not a word found on any of the related pages. (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by ElspethTirel

I've read a few articles, and anecdotal posts online, that people have noticed a correlation between their speech and ads they are shown. As far as I know, this is a proven thing in cellphones. I've noticed eerie coincidences lately like that, and living with someone who has a galaxy s6 (and is getting an s7, so the always have the new phones) and someone who has an iPhone 6s...I am more scared now.

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MrPim ago

I got divorced. So when I did that I had to get a new ISP, the old account was in her name. And I bought a new computer. So I get my new computer, and a new ISP acct. This brand new computer on a brand new ISP acct has been online for 30 minutes. Google somehow knew who I was already.

AreWeHuman ago

maybe your phone was connected to the same network? it would probably have logged in to google and since both phone and computer would have the same outward going ip google can know.

MrPim ago

No wifi in the house at the time. So my phone wouldn't have been in the mix. I still can't really explain it. But as soon as I went to do a search it came up w my google acct(at that time just a YouTube acct, that was before G+, and I've never had a GMail acct). IDK, but that fucking thing knew who I was 30 minutes after putting a whole brand new system online.