Did you fill your date of birth on any age-protected content (websites for distilleries or breweries, for example) as 1st January 1940 or something? They could just mistakenly believe you're 81 based on that :)
I'm in my early 40s and just got shingles. Based on my googling the past few weeks I expect AARP and mechanical stair chair ads any time I'm not using adblock from here on out.
But it could be similar to the case where Target was able to targets ads to women who did not even know they were pregnant.
In this case, the above commenter could be doing things signaling that he may need a will soon due to diseases or life situation that he is not aware of. Or he/she has looked into content similar to those people in need. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For every "Big Tech figured out my diagnosis before I did" there are a thousand instances of "You just bought a fridge--I bet you love buying fridges, here, let me show you some".
More realistically you should tag the users profile to show them fridges in about 3 years when it first starts to either experience minor mechanical issues or starts to look “dated”. Just tag with refrigerator_2025 or something.
The really nutty one I've seen--Amazon apparently only looks at correlation without regard for causation. Buy ink, it starts showing you printers that use that ink.
Well I’ve had a friendly hemorrhoid for a few years that I frequently see a lovely anal surgeon for and I probably have some “this might be cancer” search entries from a few years back, but it’s been so long that I should’ve died by now if it was actually cancer down there.
