I talked on the phone, after a couple of days I see an advertisement on Vkontakte about what I was talking about, How so?

Question

Information Security

I talked with a friend who lives in Chekhov. I myself am from Moscow.
We talked about driving schools in Chekhov, prices and the desire of a friend to go to school.
I go to Vkontakte - I see an advertisement for Chekhov's driving schools.
How is that?

Answer 1

Since nothing was found out, try experimentally. Hurry up with a friend to talk about anything. For example, about buying a pot. And do the same steps you did last time. With the same friend on the same phone. If an offer to buy a pan comes out, then the matter is already not clean. I'm certainly not an expert on targeted advertising and probability theory, but there is a coincidence. The chances are very small, of course, but it should not be ruled out.

Answer 2

Maybe you not only talked, but also looked for driving schools. Nobody listens to you, don't listen to paranoids and defeatists.

Answer 3

In general, mobile operating systems have long been collecting data through a microphone, be it Android or Ios. Then they sell it as targeted advertising to advertisers.
https://www.yaplakal.com/forum7/topic1387586.html
https://pikabu.ru/story/gugl_nezametno_podslushiva...
So this is not news. =)

Answer 4

Maybe because your friend is also your friend on Vkontakte, and searched through the VK search for driving schools, and the ad is somehow set up to be shown to the friends of the searcher?

Answer 5

Furthermore!
I do not understand how, but it seems that the collection is not only during the conversation. Faced more than once. Just recently, I met a friend, we are standing on the street talking (phone in pocket). He says that he works in the center of mental arithmetic. Then on the same day I see her advertising everywhere at the computer. Absolutely 100% that I did not look for it in a search engine, and did not call this phrase in conversations on the phone. This is either a very strange coincidence (but in principle not an isolated case!), Or a manifestation of the fundamental little-studied Pauli-Jung law of synchronisms, or data collection from a microphone (but how could he pick up a legible sound in his pocket).

Answer 6

Cellular operators have this service, you can use it too. Collecting OS funds from schizophrenics above has nothing to do with it. But the skeptic above also does not understand what he writes at all. Gather data once or twice. But only mobile operators.

Answer 7

It was enough to type "Driving school" somewhere in the search once, as VK probably offered you the most relevant matches, given your city, district, region
what are you going through?

Answer 8

Do not forget that mail.ru / ok.ru / vk.com - Belong to Mile. Everything is connected and if you searched or clicked something in one of these services. That in all services their display will become more frequent.

Answer 9

Samaritan in action)

Answer 10

Very similar to Selective perception . I once saw an interesting example about this. The story was about a woman who wanted to choose a car of the most unexpected color. And after the purchase, I began to notice the same cars everywhere. Until the moment of purchase, she simply did not pay attention to them.
PS In general, I had a similar experience. After calling a man with no mutual acquaintances, Facebook recommended him to me as a friend. And I didn’t have it installed, but it was on the other side. As far as I understand, such applications are also guided by the call log. And to obtain such an effect, it is enough that one side has an application.

Answer 11

most likely a coincidence. but the possibility that your data was merged is also there. live with that thought

Answer 12

You clicked on the driving school banner. Or someone from your IP was looking for a driving school.

Answer 13

Preliminary suspicions fell on the facebook application, which was installed a week ago.
While demolished, because before him I did not notice anything like that.

Answer 14

there were similar cases, the iObit Uninstaller program, with all the Yandex ticks unchecked, spied requests and a year later, after its demolition, on a clean new OS, I installed it on a new one, a new version. And on the same day, Yandex advertising with that unusual request that I intensively searched for 1 day at work a year ago.
Or Facebook is spying on Skype contacts. moreover, from two different computers, one, but dynamic ip .... And I also recorded a guitar on a mobile phone, so guitar ads and pictures of guitars began to come first in the search for themes and wallpapers, and ads for applications (not games) in applications are still inventors those still, at your request, think out your profession and have a brain that is "relevant" in their opinion garbage.

Answer 15

Yes, no one listens, what kind of nonsense))) It would have been like this everywhere for a long time, but for now only a few paranoid people write about it.
Here I have a lot of different phone conversations, services and goods, but miracle-targeting never burned me if I didn’t look for it on the Internet. Maybe a week ago, a month, six months ago. Maybe the drunk was looking for, then forgot?

Answer 16

The same. They talked on the street about filming the site. I go to see ads. Noticed multiple times. Does anyone know where to turn it off? It looks like it's in the browser settings. Or initially when you agree with the policy during installation ...