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aprilthird2021last Thursday at 2:53 AM1 replyview on HN

It's because you are the exact target demographic consumer for that product, and it's visible in your behavior patterns when using your apps combined with what they know about you (age, sex, location, demographics, etc.)


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ehntolast Thursday at 3:10 AM

Much more likely an explicit retargeting ad network that doesn't realise they already bought it.

Retargeting has been a thing for like 15 plus years now. Visit website for knives, ad network tracking cookie notes that down, same ad network later serves you ads for the same knives. Or some convoluted data sharing network that has the same outcome these days.

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