You all need to stay off that Grindr!

[Quaoarsking]

All I'm going to say is the ads are based on your browsing history....

That's always a fun response, but the algorithm is a lot more complicated than that. For example, the #1 thing I get on ads here (on my phone, that is, because I block them on the laptop) is Republican/pro-Trump politics, and I can assure you I don't ever browse for that. #2 is women's clothes (not sexy clothes, just normal dresses and shirts), and I have never bought clothes for myself online before, much less for a woman.

For whatever reason, the algorithm has used my habits to infer some kind of picture of me and thinks I'm going to click on those ads, but I think we can all see that it's missed the mark.

As for the OP, he's probably not already doing gay hookups, so he wouldn't need the ad. But something about him, whether it's his habits, or his location and perceived demographics or whatever, has convinced the algorithm that he might be a candidate to be interested in one, whether that's based on something actually there or just another AI screwup.