Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

I’ve said it before and will reinforce it cause once again no one brings it up in the comments. People report the phone is listening to them because they talked about <insert> and now they are seeing ads for it. What they may not realise is they are talking about <insert> because subliminally the ad worked they just never noticed it. Now they have. The ad was there first like a little virus worming in your brain and then you bring it up with friends thinking it an original thought.