Not convinced about the listening in stuff, even less reading minds.
Reality is likely to do with million to one stuff happens everyday because there are millions of people.
Or because you are having thousands of thoughts everyday and sooner or later one will sync with some random ad.
Or most likely imo you don't remember 99% of what your subconcious picks up. And your thoughts and actions are not as random or logical as you like to believe.
Like that affect where you buy a new car and suddenly there are a ton of them on the roads.
So you probably already saw the usb ads previous anyway, just don't remember. This shit used to happen back in the day for tv and radio ads too.
I assume half the people are very gullible or plain old bots/paid to write dumb shit. I don't have any other explanation
Aliexpress listened to a conversation I had with a friend about sweaters. Next time I open my browser, aliexpress is the 1st page, in the search bar is "swheeeaters". They don't even know how to spell sweater, but they know that I want it.
A do agree with you about confirmation bias. If a commercial doesn't apply to me I tend not to pay attention.
It's likely that we are being subconsciously primed to buy certain predictable things. The priming could be unintentional, take for instance a bad kaspersky advertisement (https://www.instagram.com/p/CLY0DANJ0nU/)v that reminds people how awesome USB-C products are.
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