Rob Goldman who is the vice-president of ads at Facebook recently replied to a tweet by PJ Vogt who presents a podcast called "Reply All" with
"I run ads product at Facebook. We don't - and have never - used your microphone for ads. Just not true," Mr Goldman wrote.
and he stated that the same thing goes for Instagram which is now also owned by the giant Facebook.
Read more about this in an article at bbc.com.
A lot of people have been feeling though as if they've been targeted by ads lately which they have never seen before yet remember talking about something similar with others around them.
Youtube user Neville Black had even uploaded a video regarding this in June of last year.
Is it just humans trying to find patterns in randomness again or do you think there might be something they are hiding from us?
What do you think about this? Have you noticed anything similar happen to your Facebook ads?
(I personally have deleted Facebook many years ago.)