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So I ordered some cigars online the other day. I did this on a device not logged into google, in privacy mode. An email with the order went to my @gmail. The n
by myrandomcomment 9y ago
So I ordered some cigars online the other day. I did this on a device not logged into google, in privacy mode.
An email with the order went to my @gmail. The next day in my Youtube videos the ads where for stop smoking patches.
They read email.
- Gaelan 9y agoGoogle also allows ads targeting a list of emails. Could be that the cigar seller asked google to show you the ads.
- myrandomcomment 9y agoWhy 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.
- singron 9y agoThe 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.
- myrandomcomment 9y agoThe sold it in less then 24 hours?
- Pyxl101 9y agoWell, it's not like they need to ship the list of email addresses across the company in a truck.
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago> They read email. Sometimes hilariously. A few years ago a friend emailed me a barbershop quartet video, and I spent the next couple of weeks getting hairdresser ads ...