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Did you buy those cereals recently? What method of payment did you use?

• mrsmee89 6y ago
  I didn’t, a family member did buy one of the two via credit card. Could that be it? The. We got associated via the WiFi network?
  • Nextgrid 6y ago
    Very possible. Facebook and other social networks (and their SDKs embedded in every mainstream app) use IP addresses as a way to infer relationships between people.
  • davismwfl 6y ago
    Data aggregators can/do get the purchase history of people and will associate that with their marketing id, I built systems to do this and it is amazing how detailed it is. This includes in store purchases, digital purchases, and can even include cash purchases if you have a store discount card etc. Generally IME we would get other devices associated to that user. e.g. If Sam bought something on his cell phone, when we aggregated that data or purchased it from others, we could associate Sam's other devices (computer, tablet etc). Typically we would only target this consumer based upon their marketing id across devices, and not target associated devices which didn't match to the user. However, there are some aggregators that do track devices commonly seen with the user, regardless of a known marketing id. So not impossible you could have been targeted this way.