Re:How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of bi...
by emmelaich on Saturday November 24, 2018 @03:38PM
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Sometimes it's mere proximity. If your family or friends find you have condition X or treatment Y then they may look it up to find more.
If you share the same public IP, as most homes do then that adds to it.
I started getting invitations to add a Google review to a restaurant I've never been too. But some of my family had.
I can figure out other stuff too - music tastes, social media trends, etc. Just by seeing ads and stories I'm offered on Google News and other places.
There's that famous story about a guy who discovered his daughter pregnant (or feared she was pregnant) a few years back because he started getting ads for baby clothes.
If you share the same public IP, as most homes do then that adds to it.
I started getting invitations to add a Google review to a restaurant I've never been too. But some of my family had.
I can figure out other stuff too - music tastes, social media trends, etc. Just by seeing ads and stories I'm offered on Google News and other places.
There's that famous story about a guy who discovered his daughter pregnant (or feared she was pregnant) a few years back because he started getting ads for baby clothes.