An email ad from a company selling tools, one of which is a deburring tool, I might consider a coincidence. But a specific deburring tool ad? Nope.
I'm bringing this back because it happened again.
Yesterday I got online to my bank. Secured connection, https, padlock, etc, to order a box of checks.
The bank's site transferred me to the site selling the checks, also a secured connection.
I ordered a box of checks, logged off, closed the browser.
this morning I get this:
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I have NEVER in my life gotten a 'checks' advertisement. This is not coincidence, this is a direct result of me buying checks, on supposedly secure websites!
HOW DID THIS PLACE KNOW THIS AND GET MY EMAIL ADDRESS?? Actually the answer is easy
Note that I didn't google anything. I opened my bank bookmark, logged in, clicked 'other services', clicked 'buy checks', and bought checks.
So much for 'secure' websites.
Spammers picking up keywords from public forums such as this is one thing, but companies freely passing around info I consider private from 'secure' connections is ridiculous...