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There was a case where someone was getting ads for pregnancy products before she herself even knew she was pregnant, iirc it was down to search queries but don't quote me on that (or that the story is actually true).



I remember this happening with Target in 2012

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...


It was the woman knew she was pregnant, but her father did not, which sounds a lot more reasonable than the algorithm knowing she was pregnant when she did not know.




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