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Amazon purchases your credit card purchase history from major CC providers, likely as part of reciprocity agreement. They know more about you thank you think.

Source: I was retargeted on Amazon for an impulse buy of an obscure item from Macy's. My CC was the only way to join my data.



Google does that too. I don't think there's any company dealing with ads which doesn't do that kind of an agreement.




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