Just down the road from us a mother and son raise chickens for their eggs. They have around 20 chickens and we buy our eggs off them. This past Saturday we were out of eggs and it was time to restock - myself and the wife got into a conversation all about going back to the land and all that jazz - not an uncommon topic - our daughter has become a 'homesteader', or is at least trying!
We have a big country kitchen with a large table and one end is my wife's and my kind of office. She uses an ad blocker on her computer and I don't. The only thing I ever google and shop for is motorcycle parts and tools - it's good to let the ads come as I sometimes get better prices. Anyway we also have one of those Google home things that I mainly use for a radio or a timer when I'm baking bread - it also tries to answer questions when we ask it, but it's not so good at that! Our conversation about raising chickens and how much better fresh eggs are ended and the wife left to go get the eggs - I logged onto my computer to check the morning news and my favourite buy and sell site. Ads appear on the site - the top ad was for an egg candler!! ( I've never seen anything remotely like this before. ) Maybe some of those 'conspiracy theories' floating around out there are closer to the truth than I would like to believe - just saying, that's all - makes one wonder!