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Re:The Washington Post is preparing for post-cookie ad targe... by T1glober on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:40PM (#20471553)
It gets really spooky when you start getting ads for something that was mentioned a couple times in Messenger. Wouldn't be surprised if they are scraping DMs now, too.
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Re:The Washington Post is preparing for post-cookie ad targe... by afiori on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:08AM (#20476958)
And the alternative explanation is even worse: modern behavioral model (at times) as so good that they know what product to sell you before you do.
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