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Aggressive_FIamingo t1_j3jsyte wrote

Reply to comment by IamSauerKraut in Stories on the movie about the Zumba lady. by IamSauerKraut

Someone who uses your internet connection clearly does. Those ads don't come out of nowhere. I just disabled my adblocker and the ads I'm getting on their articles are for the Salvation Army and some shoe company. I'm certainly not getting adult ads.

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AnythingToAvoidWork t1_j3tb934 wrote

They might use a VPN. Those IPs are shared.

Ad logic can also be pretty tangential.

I searched for a duck themed tie for a murder mystery dinner thing and I immediately started getting ads for hunting gear.

The very fact that they know there's a movie about that person (news to me) probably means they've searched her

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