Take your android phone, and start talking to a SO, or friend about something completely unrelated to anything you are going to search for online... Such as ta

Take your android phone, and start talking to a SO, or friend about something completely unrelated to anything you are going to search for online... Such as talking to your SO (who isn't pregnant, or able to become pregnant) about having a baby, baby clothes, needing diapers... etc. Nothing online about that, no searches, no emails on the topic... because you aren't in fact having a baby. Then pay attention to the ads you start to see. In my specific case, it was for a specific software I used to use well over a decade ago, and suggested against as it became a really crappy product. The circle I was talking with was a random group of strangers at a restaurant on an impromptu conversaion. It was not my friend group, or anything that was merely coincidence that I received ads for that specific software. And what makes you think that I feel I'm a special case on this... your devices are absolutely tracking you, listening and intaking every bit of information Google, MS and Apple can acquire. It's nothing special about me at all.