I think I had best hold back giving it total texture - it involves my girlfriend and is fairly personal.
But, we we're talking on Monday about our plans for the future. A relevant issue came up in the conversation - few days later, a 'pop-up' offered us/her a solution.
My girlfriend sent me a screencap, utterly shocked - the subject is fairly personal and private to us - she hasn't searched on the subject (she has stated) and has only spoken to me about it.
Why are they selecting you and your girlfriend for this? The only ads I get are for things I've searched for or bought on line. Absolutely nothing whatsoever related to the things I discuss with friends, at work or my other half.
And if you really believe this nonsense (sorry but it's nonsense) then stop discussing personal things with your girlfriend in front of the computer. And just shout random shite at the microphone to fuck them up.
If someone's got some real evidence that this is actually a thing rather than some conspiracy shite off Reddit feel free to post in the next twenty-four hours. Otherwise it's locked.
There are real security and privacy issues that we need to guard against. There is no point getting our collective knickers in a twist over something like this, which even if it was true, would show up Google and the big corporations as massively incompetent fuckwits.
Example - I need a local pharmacy...
Google suggestion - put up an advert for a pharmacy 200 miles away because of a random comment by someone who isn't even the owner of the computer...
Brilliant.