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Can this be explained with a birthday paradox? If there is a large number of people signing up to Stripe and a large number of people receiving spam emails from
by mixedbit 13y ago
Can this be explained with a birthday paradox? If there is a large number of people signing up to Stripe and a large number of people receiving spam emails from Stripe competitors, probability that some people will receive a spam email just after signing up to Stripe may be non-negligible.
- aaron695 13y agoI'd guess it's more to do with the OP is in a job that gets targeted with these types of ads. (Correctly it seems) Combined with, there probably has been other emails previously but they were ignored since OP at that time had their head on different issues. As a human a pattern was looked for and a pattern was found. As above companies are tracking this sort of stuff and some sites get the email addresses of user who visit (from tracking data). So the 'coincidence' might be more contrived with a bit more targeting than just low level job data. Would need more info. But I wouldn't call it a birthday paradox, it's not totally random.