This is exactly my experience. I'm not a paranoid person by any means but it was becoming laughable how much it was happening. The final straw was when my buddy

This is exactly my experience. I'm not a paranoid person by any means but it was becoming laughable how much it was happening. The final straw was when my buddy came over to my apt after a work where he was explaining that he had to trim some trees and 30 minutes later I'm getting ads for tree trimmers even though I live in an apt and have never even remotely searched for anything on the topic. It happens too often and to too many people for me to believe they don't. Especially because if I owned facebook I would do the same thing because there's little pushback and the data is invaluable.