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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by Gaelan on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:03PM (#15535380)
Google also allows ads targeting a list of emails. Could be that the cigar seller asked google to show you the ads.
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by myrandomcomment on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:38PM (#15535727)
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.
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by singron on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:12PM (#15537719)
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.
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by myrandomcomment on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:14PM (#15538402)
The sold it in less then 24 hours?
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Re:Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail by Pyxl101 on Monday October 23, 2017 @09:49PM (#15538610)
Well, it's not like they need to ship the list of email addresses across the company in a truck.
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