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Anyone else noticing that you only have to THINK about things and it pops up as Ads or YouTube videos etc. and you have NOT googled it or talked about it?

submitted by shill1 to AskUpgoat 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 07:06:58 ago (+12/-1)     (AskUpgoat)

Shit is starting to freak me out. Like AI is already more advanced then we understand, like its countless steps ahead of us and we have no idea the monster we have created.


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[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 16 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 09:24:46 ago (+17/-1)

100% false.

I do NOT see ads even remotely related to "How to build the German Holocaust ovens."

[ - ] Swej_Ehtsag 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 13:18:11 ago (+1/-0)

Currently thinking about "jew lampshade sewing machine kit"... crosses fingers

[ - ] xmasskull 0 points 1 weekJan 12, 2026 05:29:36 ago (+1/-1)

Try your local public library.

[ - ] Lost_In_The_Thinking 12 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 07:25:53 ago (+12/-0)

I don't ever see ads. Not on the Internet, not on TV. If I'm forced to deal with ads anywhere, I'm not interested.

[ - ] Prairie 7 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 09:36:06 ago (+7/-0)

Same. I get close to physical violence when an ad is forced on me. Nothing is important enough to endure ads to use.

[ - ] shill1 [op] 3 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 09:48:24 ago (+3/-0)

I have ad block on my computer, not my phone.

[ - ] NeonGreen 6 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 11:26:46 ago (+6/-0)

Brave is pretty decent on mobile.

Private DNS: dns.adguard-dns.com

Helps with mobile apps.

[ - ] Leveraction 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 12:59:20 ago (+1/-0)

So far brave has been pretty decent

[ - ] Swej_Ehtsag 0 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 13:20:20 ago (+0/-0)

If only every DNS and VPN service weren't based in Israel and used to monitor the goyim.

[ - ] NeonGreen 0 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 15:55:35 ago (+0/-0)

OP is bitching about ads, not privacy concerns. If he's more tech literate he can roll his own DNS ad-blocker that is more privacy conscious.

[ - ] founder 4 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 09:26:37 ago (+5/-1)

this is confirmation bias, you think about a million things a day. but the ones you notice are the ones you see ads for.

its not even coincidence, its just commonality

[ - ] shill1 [op] 0 points 1 weekJan 10, 2026 19:43:59 ago (+0/-0)

Nah, it’s too specific

[ - ] founder 0 points 1 weekJan 11, 2026 00:17:03 ago (+0/-0)

is it though? I see an add for a product i mentioned 1 day...but how common was it mention that product?

[ - ] shill1 [op] 0 points 1 weekJan 11, 2026 00:45:11 ago (+0/-0)

i mentioned

There's your answer.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 0 points 1 weekJan 11, 2026 16:18:08 ago (+0/-0)

No I have to say I've experienced the same things and kind of done all the randomness testing and other things and it's a real thing. Listen Carl Young wrote a whole book on synchronicity. People have been understanding that you send out some kind of mental waves and can receive other kind of mental waves for a long period of time and it wouldn't surprise me at all if somebody has figured out how to get the computers or if the computers themselves have somehow synced up with those mental waves. After all we now have microchips running inches from our bodies that are operating in the gigahertz range with a constant variability according to what they're computing at the moment and the possibility of them being influenced by any kind of mental energy no matter how small emitting from your head at the time is not far-fetched.

[ - ] founder 0 points 1 weekJan 11, 2026 22:12:19 ago (+0/-0)

well if thats the case everytime you think of something you need to buy go get your phone and say outloud "i sure wish i had some coupons to buy a new heater....or trash bags....or krispy kreme"...or whatever.

if you genuinely believe your phone can hear you when not in use then use it to your advantage

[ - ] dulcima 3 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 11:04:51 ago (+3/-0)

No.

[ - ] oyy_veyy_goyy 3 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 08:07:02 ago (+3/-0)

This is kind of old news. These companies are spying on you through your connected devices and showing you ads based on certain keywords of your conversations. (((Facebook))) in particular is very guilty of this.

[ - ] shill1 [op] 3 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 09:51:30 ago (+3/-0)

I was thinking about something specific from halo 3 when Ive never searched it up at all and then its just randomly in my youtube algorithm. Stuff like that.

[ - ] jerkofalltrades 3 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 10:19:08 ago (+3/-0)

Been there too, a few times already. And like you said - not even through advertisements.

A few weeks ago a was trying to remember obscure music form 10 years ago, gave up and within a few days YT served it up without me even searching.

It does make sense they'd be able to predict emotional states like nostalgia or what not with today's digital footprint being so massive. Then they bait you discretely and chart your reactions...

Or maybe it's all just paranoia.

I honestly don't think it's purely stochastic anymore. Brain interfaces are real. And as tired as the trope is those 5G emitters with their beam forming geometry and a targeting device for people do carry around in their pocket all day seem like an awfully convenient way to probe a human's EM emissions.

Just saying!

Let's hear if @prototype has an inside scoop on that!

[ - ] prototype 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 11:34:54 ago (+3/-1)

It does make sense they'd be able to predict emotional states like nostalgia or what not with today's digital footprint being so massive. Then they bait you discretely and chart your reactions...

Deep-signal mining. A lot of what we say and do, down to how we move, all tracked by phones, carries correlations, that however weak, when aggregate, act as strong signals for advanced prediction algorithms.

The tech for it is in fact very close to a general form of low-fidelity mind reading.

Most of it came out of DARPA a decade or more ago, projects to use disparate signals to model and predict a subjects sequence of emotions, general subject matter prediction, and follow-on behavior. That program existed mostly to predict what international opponents and allies would do in response to various policies, decisions, actions, and events involving the U.S. and allies.

I have no proof of this, just what I've seen as I've tracked the research, gathered clues, and connected the dots, as well as some experience in ad-tech and other tech.

Five years ago, if you told me the familiar line, that whatever the public has, government tech is 10-15 years ahead, I would have told you thats mostly FUD governments and militarizes spread themselves to exhaust opponent nations (with over-investment and fear).

Now I'm not so sure.

It's just an educated guess at this time, but if I had my druthers, I'd say whatever the public has, the u.s. government's tech is 3-6 years ahead of the curve all R&D considered.

Obviously this isn't universal across all types of technology, some will be more ahead than others.

I honestly don't think it's purely stochastic anymore. Brain interfaces are real. And as tired as the trope is those 5G emitters with their beam forming geometry and a targeting device for people do carry around in their pocket all day seem like an awfully convenient way to probe a human's EM emissions.

I don't do the "five-geee towas are cookin muh brainz!" conspiracy (though its fun), but at this stage, nothing would surprise me.

[ - ] Bassman9000 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 10:10:58 ago (+1/-0)

Happened to me with a bottle of fucking lotion. I buy a bottle like every 5 years. I thought about the bottle in my head space. Next day Instagram tries to sell me the exact brand and bottle. Not a coincidence.

[ - ] Sector2 0 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 14:25:40 ago (+0/-0)

What caused you to think about something specific from halo 3 in the first place? The algorithm is aware of those prompts.

[ - ] hylo 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 14:07:15 ago (+2/-0)

People are very predictable. I've learned this about myself using AI to code. It often just comes up with code that I was going to write, anyway. We're not that special.

[ - ] CHIRO 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 11:53:07 ago (+2/-0)

Let me suggest something to you:

You don't just think new thoughts all of the time.

People think in patterned ways.

The point of ad targeting is trying to match your pattern with the vendor offers.

Probably, whatever the thought is you're referring to, it (a) is something you have thought about and searched before or (b) is conceptually related to something you have thought about and searched before.

[ - ] firestation7 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 11:17:17 ago (+2/-0)

I use ad blockers and do not see ads. Maybe I would enjoy it and find things I didnt even know I needed.

[ - ] ScheduledSuicide 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 10:46:50 ago (+3/-1)

Consider that the random thought in your head that later pops up as an ad is, in fact, not your thought. It was implanted or suggested somehow, and the popped-up ad is actually just the last segment of the entire ad.

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 14:38:28 ago (+1/-0)

On early reddit there was a post about a group ostensibly hiring a graphic designer to come up with a logo. Their real goal was to see if they could mind control him.

On the drive from the airport, they drove him by specific landmarks and significant visual cues. This was before AI, btw. The graphic image he created was around an 80% match with their predictions, based on that input feed completely outside his awareness.

[ - ] Bassman9000 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 10:08:57 ago (+3/-1)

Ya'll ain't ready for this bit of data. But they've logged every brain, and given it an ip on their network.

They've decoded the brains wiring and synapse firing mechanisms. They can almost completely control the subconscious mind, and most of the conscious part as well.

[ - ] jerkofalltrades 3 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 10:56:21 ago (+4/-1)

They are not even shy about it. They have been telling us all the time. Smart dust. Bio sensing. Digital twins. Look up Charles Lieber and his work on Ferritin.

I mean let's be real they didn't push the vaccine to tweak the fertility rates alone - they have other ways of doing that.

The whole COVID program must have been a giant field trial for God knows what kind of bio hacking tech complete with control groups and everything.

This explains why they dialed back the whole bio security agenda for now. They are collecting data and quantifying the effects. That's why they didn't just force injected the hold outs and that's why they didn't use self replicating 'vaccines'and that's why some batches might have come with BT-emitters (or agents to facilitate their growth inside human tissue, again look up ferritin) - it had to be individual injections for statistics sake.

We are living through the calm before the storm, at the proof of concept stage.

[ - ] Bassman9000 0 points 1 weekJan 10, 2026 23:55:19 ago (+0/-0)

I'm well aware, nice to know other people are as well. They calmed down the rhetoric because it's already installed. You are correct.

What comes next is a nightmare a Sci fi writer couldn't even fathom.

[ - ] anonnon 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 09:55:50 ago (+2/-0)

You got the jew injections, didn't you.

[ - ] boekanier 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 08:45:25 ago (+2/-0)

Technology has now advanced so far that it is already reading minds

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 10:58:08 ago (+2/-0)

It's reading your behavior. If it can watch nearly everything you do, and it can, it will be able to predict all sorts of things. Like when you need to poop or when your daughter gets pregnant.

It's just numbers. With proper statistics and massive accumulation of data, you can figure out an approximation of what 80%+ of people will do. And more, once you further refine things.

The more you are connected to the machine the more easily it can do this.

[ - ] albatrosv15 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 07:27:49 ago (+2/-0)

And it's definitely not the other way around.

[ - ] Indoctrinated_USA 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 07:48:04 ago (+1/-0)

Telepathic AI is the way...

[ - ] Anus_Expander 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 07:23:22 ago (+2/-0)

Happens to me on a regular basis.

[ - ] NoRefunds 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 10:22:52 ago (+1/-0)

Yes it has been happening to me since 2018. My wife thought I was crazy but it happens to her too.

[ - ] QuestionEverything 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 09:44:36 ago (+1/-0)

adblock is your friend.

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 14:40:47 ago (+1/-0)

uMatrix is your personal assistant.

[ - ] Bottled_Tears 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 08:54:16 ago (+2/-1)

Our phones are reading our eyes for sure but may have more technology than we know.

[ - ] GetWoke 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 07:57:53 ago (+1/-0)

The other day I thought the phrase “spaghetti western” five minutes later a YouTube vid popped up about spaghetti westerns … clown world

[ - ] firestation7 2 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 11:22:23 ago (+2/-0)

You are programmed by the algorithm. It is not reading your mind. You are predictable is all...just like all the rest of us. If I watch a video and see something interesting I want to search further it will take usually just a couple letters in the search box and it will usually fill in an entire phrase for me.

I think they use click analytics or something. Your whole phone is monitored and so is everyone else's. So basically they can observe what the average person does after seeing a particular video and they can use that information to tailor ads and results to your behavior, not you specifically (in most cases).

[ - ] GetWoke 1 point 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 18:08:40 ago (+1/-0)

Well, I don’t think you are wrong.
On several occasions youtube has listened and made vid suggestions based on in person conversations I’ve had… the phone has a microphone the app has access to it, yeah ok it’s listening I get it.
In this case in particular I didn’t say the phrase out loud and further more I’m not a huge fan of western/cowboy movies and the term “spaghetti westerner” hasn’t come out of my mouth in several years at least…
Can the phone pick on certain brain waves? I think probably it can, sadly.

[ - ] YouAreIgnorantCunt 0 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 16:15:56 ago (+1/-1)

This speaks more about your subliminal susceptibility to propaganda. You’re subconcious is viewing the add, creating an active thought about it and then bam, it appears to have popped up after you thought about it.

It was always there.

[ - ] PrettyBlueEyes 0 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 15:24:16 ago (+0/-0)

Want to know how this is accomplished?

Eye movements. The algorithms in which your eyes are moving reveal your thoughts.

If someone has eye movement A through C, then buys item X, and another person does the same, eventually, when you make the eye movements, the AI will guess what you're about to do.

[ - ] Crackinjokes -1 points 1 weekJan 11, 2026 16:18:58 ago (+0/-1)

Remember your brain Burns about a thousand calories a day in electrical synapse transmission energy. That's a thousand calories. That's some actual real electrical energy going on. It's bound to affect things around us that are very sensitive like modern sensors in phones and modern computer chips running in the gigahertz space.

[ - ] Crackinjokes -1 points 1 weekJan 11, 2026 16:16:42 ago (+0/-1)

Stop worrying and it truly accept the fact that you are going to die. Once you truly accept the fact that you're going to die not just as a theoretical concept in the distance but truly understand that you are going to die absolutely definitely and there's nothing you can do about it then you will start enjoying life today and you will worry a whole lot less about long-term future impacts of things that you have no control over. You are on a Merry-Go-Round and you need to look around as the ride goes on because it will stop without notice and if you spent your whole time looking at your navel or thinking about whether the roller coaster and the distance is in trouble or not you will not have enjoyed your merry-go-round ride.

[ - ] Crackinjokes -1 points 1 weekJan 11, 2026 16:15:27 ago (+0/-1)

Yes. I have noticed that a little bit lately. One day they're going to find out that our brains receive Schumann resonance frequency variations that allow us to understand what other people are thinking especially other people who are in the same sinking brainwave pattern that we are. And it will explain many of these things.

[ - ] dassar 0 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 14:11:16 ago (+0/-0)

Nope - dont get ads. much.

[ - ] prototype -1 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 11:51:55 ago (+0/-1)

So OP is a communist spreading the fear-duh-ai narrative.

Because anti-AI is 100% correlated with trannyism, and trannyism is 100% correlated with communism.

[ - ] PuntMaster5000 -1 points 2 weeksJan 10, 2026 10:07:17 ago (+1/-2)

Are you vaxxed?