Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel...
by Phemist on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:44AM
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Wow what, facebook allows ad targeting based on a user's email?
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Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel...
by ummonk on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:42PM
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Yup. The typical use case is e.g. if someone logs in to your e-commerce site with their email and looks at a product but doesn’t purchase, then you can show them an ad for that product to try to remind them to go back and buy it.
It’s a really creepy feature though that can easily be abused.