Greetings,
I have been following LTT and NCIX on Youtube for a few years now, but I am completely new to the LTT forums. Something very interesting just happened while I was looking up a javadoc on Google. It's either an extremely intrusive advertisement campaign or my first experience with auditory hallucinations. I couldn't think of a better place to get input on the matter than here, on the linustechtips forums.
Enough rambling. I was doing some work and had to refer to a javadoc for a certain constructor. Rather than using the dust-gathering Oracle bookmark, I typed in the Java lib name into the address bar and hit enter. While on Google's results page, I happened to inhale a bit of saliva (my tonsils were removed when I was younger) and coughed a couple of times, three at most. Immediately after coughing, an ad for cough syrup begin playing in my ear buds (plugged into laptop w/ inline microphone). I'm not going to lie - it startled me good.
I was using Google Chrome with adblock. I only had 3 tabs open at the time, which I eye-scanned and concluded to be ad-free.
My initial thought: It must have come in an update related to the (sort of) recent "OK, Google" addition to Google Chrome.
I Googled my hypothesis, and even "Binged" it, for good measure. Found nothing.
Have anyone experienced anything remotely similar? I got very little rest last night because of heavy workload. I suppose hallucinations wouldn't be completely out of the question, but I highly doubt it. Then again, I'm not a doctor ^^