Targeted ads through a visa CC? Coincidence???

My boyfriend is freaked out and his denial is poorly masking his anxiety over this.

I have an iPhone that is out of service. I just turn on the wifi and play The Simpsons Tapped Out, so I always carry it around and it's always next to me.

I have a different phone for calls and I spoke to him on speaker. We had a conversation about some store we have never heard of, that doesn't exist in our city showing up on his investment app.


The next day, while browsing on my iPhone, I see ads for the store name we had talked about on speaker phone.

I told him "We talked on my galaxy on speaker. I didn't log into the app or type in the name. So why is it on my iPhone ads? I told you the iPhone's listen to people."

He said "No...you must have googled it. You must have!" It was such obvious denial of something he finally sees is true.

My devices mustn listen to me, because when I talk..

TALK on the phone, I get ads on the internet about what ever my conversations are about..

If I mention teeth, I see dental ads..

If I mention having to pee,I will then see urology ads..

I think it's just spying from Google..

Just IMHO

It's called retargeting. It's very common practice in internet marketing these days.