[ExI] privacy

[William Flynn Wallace]

Just after Spike's revelation that he had received ads related to his
conversation with his wife in a car, presumably picked up by his mobile, I
went shopping for under the counter water filter systems - Aquasana, for
one.

Then I logged on the the Clarion Ledger - local paper - and found a big ad
for Aquasana.  I have never seen an ad for water filter systems anywhere,
so I assume this is not coincidence.

Just how did they get the information?  I used my Chromebook to go to
Amazon and to the Aquasana web site.

Have any of you experience anything like this?  Or like Spike's?  Could
Aquasana have put a cookie, or something like it, on my computer that the
newspaper site read?

This is really creepy.

bill w
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