Care to share any strange occurrences of "the internet is watching us"?

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answer:In looking up info to answer a fluther question a couple months ago, I did a Google search for info on catheters. Until I went and re-tweaked the Google ad preferences, I was getting ads for catheters everywhere I turned around. Linked in is insidious over the data mining for connection suggestions. I dated a woman briefly back in 2008; her picture pops up on linked in about once a week.

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