You mentioned the ads popping up. Recently hubby and I were talking about buying new flooring and now all of a sudden we're seeing ads for flooring on our phones and PC. No we do not have Alexa or anything like that (that we know of - although we did just buy a new flat screen smart TV) It wouldn't surprise me in the least if we were to find out our TV is listening to us. It probably wouldn't do any good to speak in a foreign language since it probably knows those better than any we know, except maybe pig latin.