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This is the kind of thing that makes people not believe in the OP's story, because this is absolutely ridiculous. It's called cookie and fragment tracking acro
by icelancer 8y ago
This is the kind of thing that makes people not believe in the OP's story, because this is absolutely ridiculous.
It's called cookie and fragment tracking across the Internet. That's what happened to you. You sold yourself out by browsing the web without sufficient content blockers.
- g_sch 8y agoI mean, maybe, but GP also said they filled out a survey with their diagnosis information, so it's certainly plausible that the company added that information to their profile immediately.
- cwkoss 8y agoMaybe it should be illegal to do ad tracking on sites about medical information. The fact that someone is browsing that site may be private medical information.
- joering2 8y agoConsidering there are only two countries in which advertising of pharmacy as allowed (to a point of fear mongering, like "the entire baby boom generation has hidden shingles - protect yourself before you die") - that is USA and Brazil, you're going to have a hard time convincing politicians to move their finger.. especially since majority of them are heavily founded by big pharma.
- cellularmitosis 8y agoAnd all of that cookie tracking just so happened to catch up with me the day after submitting the survey? I had been performing related searches for months...