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The most striking example happened to me while watching a documentary about siberian cats.

We were watching it in Italian, our main language, and I wanted to know more about it, as I typed "g", the first result was "gatto siberiano", exactly the cat I was looking for. Way too specific.

Another time as my girlfriend said she was interested how much a specific model of a watch a friend of him costed, the very same happened, as I typed the first few letters the very watch brand and model appeared.

Since then, I just don't care about how much technical description I can read, nothing's gonna convince me of it being a coincidence.




There’s a breadth of possibilities between coincidence and the phone actively listening to everything via a microphone.




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