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There is a name for this cognitive bias - 'Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon' or 'Frequency illusion'.

"The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...

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Is that like after you start looking to buy a car and you now see the same model like 100 times in a day and you previously never noticed seeing it ever?

It seems to be a la mode to post a bias or a syndrome for everything. The effects the post refers to are possible and possibly real, only the mediums described seem to be wrong. Heck, I bought a couple of boxers a week ago online, now the whole internet is NSFW for me, all the ads are male and female underwear, including Google ads. I'm quite tech-literate and have a rough grasp of how ads work and how to get rid of them, but a normal user is just perplexed and confused, and all he can think of is the big brother.

Or, that reddit post was a place where everyone who experienced something similar shared what has already happened.

There is a name for this cognitive bias - 'Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon' or 'Frequency illusion'.

"The illusion in which a word, a name, or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards" [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Fre...

Please do not plagiarise people's comments.

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