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No such discussion happened. As per above, that group of people were super toxic and couldn’t care less about this specific person…

At most the remaining people would’ve mentioned how his panic attack inconvenienced their night out.

Except as I said NOBODY looked up the term. How many times and in how many forms do I have to state that the MENTION of pulse oximeters was: verbal only, in no way entered into a computer before I started getting the adverts?

The discussion itself wasn’t even that long, colleague asked why I looked so tired, I told him how the previous night we had to call an ambulance and sort the guy out, colleague said “maybe he should get a cheap pulse oximeter, it can be helpful to predict attacks and handle them without a call [for an ambulance]”, and that was it. Topic was dropped.

And no, mutual friends didn’t look it up either as they didn’t care much for the guy (tbf it was a super toxic community I’m glad I’ve left behind).

Nope, as only ~4 people remained at that point, and they wouldn’t even be thinking of researching this topic.

NONE of that data can predict a random occurrence discussion that goes in a specific direction.

A great example is something that happened to me in 2015. One night I was out with friends, and one of them had a really bad panic attack. The next day I was discussing it with a colleague during a smoke break, who recommended he gets a clip-on pulse oximeter. No searches, nothing, literally just a half minute detour in our chat. I repeat, nothing was typed in or looked up or in any way entered into any computer intentionally.

Five minutes later we’re sitting in front of our respective computers and I start getting ads for the very thing. Mind you, we’re still at a point where nothing noted during this discussion was entered into any computer. Explain this.

That’s been happening for well over a decade now, and while “respectable security researchers” call it bullshit… there’s simply too much anecdotal evidence for it to happen organically.