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Old 6th February 2012 | 21:57
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TheAdmirableCretin
 
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Targeted Advertising

Hopefully someone out there can lend some insight...
I'm aware that when searching a subject a link to advertisers can lead to targeted ads... what I'm more concerned about is can this type of advertising be targeted simply from e-mail content ? In other words .. am I just being paranoid ?
My wife was recently diagnosed with cancer... I've not researched the condition on-line... never 'googled' the subject yet in the past three weeks since I've e-mailed friends/family of details I've now started getting pop-ups for the Macmillan Cancer institute (or whatever their called)... an amazing coincidence or something more sinister ?
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