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Everybody at the comments are telling about how apps indeed monitor our microphones, but have you experience apps monitoring thoughts? Exactly, mind reading! Once I thought a specific philosophical phrase (yet I don't remember which one it was), and few minutes later a video platform recommended a deep-thought video containing such exact phrase. I didn't even say the phrase outside of my "mind's voice", let alone typing/writing it. I dunno what kind of sorcery they used, but it happened a couple of times. Fact is that the app did, somehow, "read my mind". It was this video platform only, I didn't see other apps doing the same outside of recommending/showing things spoken near the mic or written somewhere.
Your thoughts are influenced by your surroundings, and those listening may simply link thise topics like spotify links songs.
Could just be coincidence too.
I agree that our thoughts are somehow influenced by our surroundings, except that I'm an introvert developer person with no one actually surrounding me. While I often think about philosophy, occult and esotericism (as well as scientific concepts, in a syncretic fashion; I'm passionate by all those three branches of human knowledge, the Science, the Philosophy and the Esotericism/Occult/Beliefs), it was too much of a coincidence for such app to show exactly the phrase I was thinking before, even though it was a known philosophical phrase (but philosophy is a vast field filled with many, many phrases and concepts).
I bought an iced tea with cash one day, a brand I had never bought. No points card, had left my phone in my car. Didn't I get an Instagram ad an hour later for that iced tea.
I also found a business card for my old manager in some papers, and I put it on my desk simply for digging dust and debris out of my keyboard. I never use my desktop for social media, have never logged in on there, and ten minutes later got her as a friend suggestion on Facebook. I have nobody in common with her and worked for her for only a couple of months.
Also, for those skeptical: There's something in human psychology field called "Emotional Facial Action Coding System" (EFACS). Our bodies "talk", especially our faces, and we call it "body language". There are some specialists (psychologists) that are capable of "reading" such language. Mentionable specialists are Paul Ekman (PhD) and Joe Navarro (ex-FBI and author of "What Every Body Is Talking"), as well as those within my country Vitor Santos ("Metaforando") and Ricardo Ventura ("Não Minta Pra Mim"). There are broader specialists capable of such nonverbal reading as well, such as Derren Brown, responsible for documentaries such as "The Push". Specialist humans are good at this, but AI is capable of detecting even subler movements. Have you noticed a camera always pointed to our faces (we call it the "selfie camera")? It's like having a Paul Ekman seeing your face 24/7, one that is capable of reading your nonverbal behaviors so precisely that he could actually "deduce" what exactly are you thinking.