That's something that has been well known for a while around 2019ish I was talking to a co-worker about banks and over drafts she mentioned Chime. I never googled it or looked it up but later that day when I took my break I was browsing FB and I got a ton of adds for Chime. I ended up telling her and we had a laugh over it, come 2020 I started to become more and more aware of how much these things listen and record you.

I go to a zoom book club and a zoom Bible study, Abouna is always saying I need a webcam so I can interact with the class more. I told him I am okay.

I hear stories like this for years.

Yeah stuff I've talked about (never searched for or looked at) has suddenly shown up as ads on my phone's apps.