Intrusive ad || sleep deprivation

[LukeFi]

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 ^^

[terrytek]

Google Now search. Listens to what you say.

[Imabigmac]

Google Now search. Listens to what you say.

Piece of %$*& 

 

Immediately shuts down and uninstalls itself, resetting IE as your default browser. 

[terrytek]

Piece of %$*& 

 

Immediately shuts down and uninstalls itself, resetting IE as your default browser. 

Nah, google.com has a microphone. it will automatically listen to you if you have a microphone. and never reset IE for me.

[LukeFi]

Google Now search. Listens to what you say.

 

That was my guess. I'm not certain, but I believe I was told to initialize my command with "OK, Google". I feel played... 

 

With Google's budget, I would at least expect the voice of the advertiser to be more pleasing.

[terrytek]

That was my guess. I'm not certain, but I believe I was told to initialize my command with "OK, Google". I feel played... 

 

With Google's budget, I would at least expect the voice of the advertiser to be more pleasing.

Well, I think you had to initialize the command with that command. But maybe it could have been bugged and heard you without you saying OK Google.

[McMurderMonkey]

Pretty Spooky. Probably what @terrytek said.