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Targeting ads based on activity is a dangerous game. I was once shopping online for underwear. For the next couple of days ads would show up from this site showing pictures of men in underwear, trying to make me go back and buy the garments in question. That is very annoying, and creepy. Surely the more profitable the product, the more creepy it will seem.


And now everyone knows you like to look at pictures of men in underwear.




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