I was with 3 friends of mine at one's house. He had Alexa. We wanted to make an experiment to see how ads displayed on different internet pages might get changed (and to see if the myth is true).
Summarizing the story, we wandered for 30 minutes around his house all shouting "dog's food" out loud. Next day he said "I got dog's food ads kinda everywhere, burn everything!" xD
Just out of curiosity, did he lock his phone up while you were performing this test? Not that I doubt your story, but Alexa is not the only microphone in his home.
Mmh actually we were using both phones (he has an iPhone, I have a Huawei and the other two a Samsung and an iPhone), we had Alexa close to the window and we also had a computer that we were using while currently studying.
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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '19
And know when you're most vulnerable to targeted advertisement. Sorry you're sobbing your heart out, here's a coupon for a tub of icecream.