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I think this post was written mostly as a joke, right? First of all, it was written in 2009, secondly it starts: Now this is really really eerie stuff. Today
by EwanToo 14y ago
I think this post was written mostly as a joke, right?
First of all, it was written in 2009, secondly it starts:
Now this is really really eerie stuff. Today I came to office wearing my “Holland” T-shirt. I normally never wear this shirt to office.
I fired up my Gmail in the browser, and see a “Study in Holland” Google ad!
Now, maybe my sense of humour is way off, but I think the guy wasn't being serious about Google looking at his shirt and serving adverts based on it...
- debayan 14y agoIt is possible to do it though. I was in bangalore when that happened (and carried a non-Android phone at that time). Google already knows what I look like, and Banaglore is full of surveillance cameras everywhere. It also knew where my office was based on my GMail login co-ordinates. So if you stitch up all of that you can produce that sort of advertisements. (I am the author of the blog post)