I know, that’s kind of paranoid, but I’m not paranoid like “the gov can hear me through my phones mic and SIM card without internet connection”. No, I’m not like that.

I’m just telling, I’ve talked with a few friends and after that I noticed ads about the exact same subject of our chat, and I know this can be a false impression because sometimes we forget that we had searched about the same subject before, then we have the illusion an app is spying on us, but actually we searched about it without noticing.

That can be true yea, but lately this is happening too much (with too much I mean 3-4 times, which is too much for this context).

Also, I don’t see ads, it’s extremely rare I see any ad, I use uBlock Origin and DNS Filter with the most aggressive filters, even tho, I still had this very impression in the few times I had seen ads.

I noticed this on the messages to myself too, I often use WhatsApp to transfer quick URLs and reminders to my phone via “message to me”.

I’m now encrypting messages before sending to me and decrypting on my phone, that can be paranoid I know, I don’t have anything important I just don’t want any company making me an idiot without I knowing it.

What do you guys think about it? Does anyone noticed something similar?

Another thing is that I don’t use Google so even if I search somewhere in theory I should be protected by DuckDuckGo and Startpage (which I use).