Is this a coincidence or something more sinister?

The more I think about this, the more perplexed I get. Hopefully, someone can come up with a logical explanation.

Yesterday, I typed up a response to a post, decided it might contain information best not disclosed, and spent a few minutes trying to edit it for public consumption before saying screw it and dropping it. I'll just say it was the money laundering thread and I jokingly referenced needing a cash counting machine.
This morning I check my consignments and Amazon has a banner ad advertising a money counting machine. Three times today, on sites with ads I get an ad for different machines.
Just to be clear, I never made my post public, just typed it and never sent it. As I've never wanted a money counter and have never looked into one, it would be an incredible coincidence that these ads popped up.
Does anyone want to ease my mind?

Google is inside your computer. If you type it they know. You now have the proof.
This has happened to me more than once. If anyone knows how to stop it I'm listening.

I'm not an expert However my disdain for this type of intrusion has led me to this,
Use Firefox as your browser get add-on's Ghostery & AdBlock you will see
almost no ads you will see no ads in YouTube video's.

I use DuckDuckGo search engine. Most of the time the results are on par
although on occasion I use Screwgle.

Yeah, chrome does that. Google ads learn.

If your bills are already sorted by denomination and you don't need counterfeit detection, US notes weigh 1 gram each. A digital kitchen scale that reads out in metric gets you there. Check the calibration with a 5 cent coin (5.000g).

Quote: billryan

The more I think about this, the more perplexed I get. Hopefully, someone can come up with a logical explanation.

Yesterday, I typed up a response to a post, decided it might contain information best not disclosed, and spent a few minutes trying to edit it for public consumption before saying screw it and dropping it. I'll just say it was the money laundering thread and I jokingly referenced needing a cash counting machine.
This morning I check my consignments and Amazon has a banner ad advertising a money counting machine. Three times today, on sites with ads I get an ad for different machines.
Just to be clear, I never made my post public, just typed it and never sent it. As I've never wanted a money counter and have never looked into one, it would be an incredible coincidence that these ads popped up.
Does anyone want to ease my mind?

Ordinarily, I'd say you are paranoid, or that it's something about your raised awareness of money counting machines. But I can't say that with confidence.
If it was amazon recommendations, go back to amazon and you might get a clue. It has sections where it says
"Inspired by your browsing history"
"Inspired by your purchases"
"Inspired by your shopping trends" etc.
There isn't an obvious section for "Inspired by your keyboard entries" but that may just be hidden for now.

Google, Amazon, facebook are everywhere, always harvesting as much data as they dare, with smart devices such as alexa and ring doorbells streaming a random selection of your world interactions straight to their data aggregation tools. Yes. Amazon maintains data about when your doorbell rang! So the concept of google chrome watching your keystrokes even before a form submission is not unthinkable. How else do you think it could spellcheck in real time? Try entering a typo and watch it go red instantly.

With smartphones, fitness trackers and watches, we can half expect to see medical and diet advice bubble to the top of the ads. Remember how so many of these services are 'free'? That means WE are the product, not the customer!

I used to buy google and facebook ads. They could target down to absurdly focussed levels of interests.

Avoiding it: You can slightly mitigate by using your browser's privacy and security settings on max. Use incognito mode and never accept cookies or javascript.
Use duckduckgo instead of google. Remember when google first offered free email..... On the proviso that they could read and harvest data from your private emails?

BUT. Do all that and web browsing will become close to unusable. Convenience comes at a price.

Alternative play games with them Cash counters, counterfeiting, butt plug, uranium, iran. Search for weird stuff and watch how they try to customise and target from that.

Big brother IS watching us.... But it's corporations, not federal government.

Go live in a cave, but don't take your smartphone or use your creditcard on the way to it. Don't pre-check out suitable caves on tripadvisor. Go off grid.

*OK. such scare mongering is what leads to disinformation and cultish behaviour. But just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they are not out to get you.
** https://globalwealthprotection.com/police-using-this-doorbell-to-violate-your-rights/

Quote: billryan

The more I think about this, the more perplexed I get. Hopefully, someone can come up with a logical explanation.

Yesterday, I typed up a response to a post, decided it might contain information best not disclosed, and spent a few minutes trying to edit it for public consumption before saying screw it and dropping it. I'll just say it was the money laundering thread and I jokingly referenced needing a cash counting machine.
This morning I check my consignments and Amazon has a banner ad advertising a money counting machine. Three times today, on sites with ads I get an ad for different machines.
Just to be clear, I never made my post public, just typed it and never sent it. As I've never wanted a money counter and have never looked into one, it would be an incredible coincidence that these ads popped up.
Does anyone want to ease my mind?

It certainly seems like it's too unique of an item to be a coincidence.

I don't really mind the ads too much and if I'm going to get ads I would rather my ads be tailored to stuff I might be interested in.

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I hate their snooping

after I've been on Amazon or FB I clear my history and cookies

actually, I clear it all the time - I recently learned there are many other companies that have the capability to snoop on you

it's a little time consuming but that's okay

I'm pretty sure Google only snoops on you when you're signed on to Google

but if you've been on on target.com and you're searching for something on Google it's probable Target and other companies can see what web page you go to from Google unless you clear your history and cookies


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Quote: lilredrooster

I'm pretty sure Google only snoops on you when you're signed on to Google

In this modern age of asking a wiretap for chicken recipes and TV remotes with microphones, I doubt this is a reasonable assumption.

I just did a bit of digging because google analytics by design is made from JavaScript

But there is no mention within the documentation do I see a function that would have been provided by google to their developers

But it is for sure a possibility to record keystrokes with JavaScript as well as with google analytics

It’s has to be developed by the site owner though

I’m too lazy to look into the wizards code to confirm if they are actually doing this

It’s more likely your browser has some kind of “extension” or “google search bar” that is spying on you imo

Any and every extension has more power over your browser than a normal JavaScript script because the extensions have access to every website you are currently on rather than when you load a website and it loads a java copy file which the JavaScript file only has access to the one site

I suspect that if you enable any type of online spell-check, every word you type is transmitted to a third party as you type it. Unless the site downloads an entire dictionary of your chosen language; which I doubt; the remote way is much more scalable and easy to implement these days.

EDIT: I tried a simple test: unplugged ethernet cable and intentionally typed misspelled words. sdfj Gammo portiont chrystals their thete comma mota mote molting
Darn, they were all detected with cable detached. So much for that theory. Must make calls to local dictionary. Although if you turn on Enhanced Spell Check it does give notice that text typed in the browser is sent to Google (this is on a Chromium based browser).

Thanks, all. I had no idea.