Can Google search and Youtube track conversations to show ads?

Question

Google

Good afternoon!
Some strange nonsense is going on, I began to notice that when you are talking next to the phone, news content appears in the Chrome feed on the topic that the conversation was about. But more crap is going on with Yotube, showing videos that I thought about, but at the same time there were no suggestive targeting actions. Some bitch mystic :(

Answer 1

Of course we can, we live in the digital age. Only Android smartphones have so many options for collecting this data.
I somehow also asked myself this question, because there were often such "personalized" advertising integrations. I have not been able to prove this theory to myself. It worked, then it didn’t work, then somehow it worked strangely, or it seemed to me that it works just like that. I tried simple things, or talked to people on certain topics, or at least touched on them, by phone, with friends on discord, cart, just when the Internet is turned on on the phone, but is in my pocket. As I said, there is no clear trace)))
I am sure for myself that this is so, that data is collected and conversations are tapped, but wiretapping is not like that of the FSB, but made me think that most likely there is some kind of robot that analyzes certain conversations, reveals key phrases, thoughts, ideas there etc., everything that can be hooked on and in their data centers they analyze and slip what you supposedly want or, perhaps, try to predict what might suit you. It doesn't always work out exactly, but at least somehow.
Also, Google is friends with Facebook, which earns the lion's share of the dough from advertising! They seem to be exchanging data, from what I've heard on the news. So, do not be surprised if one cannot, then the other will help!
Remember, the lion's share of Google's revenue is advertising! And when you are the main search engine of the world, more than half of the world walks with phones where your OS is, and if not yours, then there is a lot of chrome where you don’t need a lot of mind to start acting))) Google, by the way, pays many billions to epl for a reason , to be the default search engine in iOS)))
PS Personally, by and large, I don't care. This thing does not do evil (yet), it does not interfere with life (yet), and sometimes, something interesting can really come across. Wait and see)

Answer 2

But more crap is going on with Yotube, showing videos that I thought about, but at the same time there were no suggestive targeting actions. Some bitch mystic :(

I think that algorithms are already making predictions from the information that they have collected about us ...