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Nope.

If you get contacted via Whatsapp, then it's just s coincidence. Each spam on WhatsApp is

- fake woman wants to sell you trading secrets - fake whatever wants to turn you rich

And each of them points to crypto. But, there is a valid point you made with the jewelry ad.

I've activated the WhatsApp backup, which happens to be not secured and is plaintext uploaded to Google.

This may be a culprit. Google can analyze whatever you're writing on WhatsApp and feed it into their ad system.

And yes, why would Google spend gigabits of their Google drive storage, when they don't get anything out of it? Why would Facebook miss the opportunity to wire their ads and feed their knowledge of the user to their system?

All the ad systems are connected somehow and having a lot of different companies want and use your data. the possible outcome is that you get ads served, but not necessary by Google - it could be as well served by others.




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