Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
by Gaelan on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:03PM
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Google also allows ads targeting a list of emails. Could be that the cigar seller asked google to show you the ads.
Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
by myrandomcomment on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:38PM
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Why would the cigar seller ask to show me an ad for a STOP SMOKING CIGARS product? Also as I said, this showed up in Youtube the day after I ordered and the email hit my gmail. Never seen those ads before.
Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
by singron on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:12PM
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The cigar seller sells its customer list to a data broker or uses a third party service that does the same (e.g. it uses your email address as a user identifier in a third party analytics product). Then advertisers buy that data.
Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
by myrandomcomment on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:14PM
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The sold it in less then 24 hours?
Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
by Pyxl101 on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:49PM
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Well, it's not like they need to ship the list of email addresses across the company in a truck.
Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday October 23, 2017 @05:20PM
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> They read email.
Sometimes hilariously. A few years ago a friend emailed me a barbershop quartet video, and I spent the next couple of weeks getting hairdresser ads ...
An email with the order went to my @gmail. The next day in my Youtube videos the ads where for stop smoking patches.
They read email.