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Usually when I see this sort of coincidence, I think that it is a matter of information relevance/leakage. You read an article about bug spray chemicals and do
by sircastor 6y ago
Usually when I see this sort of coincidence, I think that it is a matter of information relevance/leakage.
You read an article about bug spray chemicals and don’t think about it, but start seeing exterminator ads online. If you read the article because you’re looking for pest control, the it feels suspicious. If you’re not, you ignore the ads and go on your way.
I don’t want to discount your experience. I haven’t seen it myself, but maybe I’m not paying enough attention.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThat's a great point! Thinking about it now, I can't be sure why we started to talk about particular products (and then saw ads about them day or two later). It could've been because one of us saw an article or an ad about it earlier. So perhaps this is neither by coincidence nor surveillance - perhaps there's an earlier link in causal chain that we've missed. I suppose the only way to be sure is to start doing proper experiments.