>All I ever hear is anecdotes. The fact that there is no hard evidence makes me very skeptical. Every anecdote is explainable another way. Someone in the comm

>All I ever hear is anecdotes. The fact that there is no hard evidence makes me very skeptical. Every anecdote is explainable another way. Someone in the comments said they were having a conversation about storage units and saw an ad for storage units immediately after. Even if they had never searched for storage units -- and can we really be sure? That would be easy to forget -- Facebook might just have extrapolated they they would need a storage unit from related searches, like searching for a moving company. I would be willing to bet this type of algorithmic extrapolation explains every one of the microphone-ad-conspiracy stories.