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Yes, that's actually the point. What I'm saying is that seemed well and good when it was actually helping me find a product I was looking for. It seems less well and good now that I know it's tracking when I have an illness and selling ads based upon that "demographic".

Think about the repercussions if I googling for cancer treatments or HIV infection symptoms and not just cold cures.



Your eyeballs are being programmatically sold to the highest bidder, and cancer treatments can be very expensive.




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