> chat with somebody about a topic and a day later I suddenly received ads Youtube recommendations about this topic What's funny about it is that counterclaims

> chat with somebody about a topic and a day later I suddenly received ads Youtube recommendations about this topic What's funny about it is that counterclaims will often be that this information doesn't necessarily need to be coming from reading your chat messages. It could be that they just know you happened to be chatting to that person -- despite "metadata" supposedly not being personally identifiable information -- and then one or more parties started to look up on google the topic they were discussing. As if that's supposed to be less invasive.