Your phones are listening to you, and tracking you, like, all the time

Have you noticed when ads in your Instagram and Facebook feeds, or website ones in general, to start showing tons of t-shirts or electric bikes all of a sudden? Well, I searched a few things online, you say to yourself, and ad cookies did their usual tracking thing, but I'm still looking for this stuff, so I don't mind being served a hidden gem of a deal.

Well, what if you never searched for the things you see in your Facebook ads, and they still pop up right after you had a passionate conversation about that trip to Japan you never did? That's exactly what happened to Vice's Sam ...