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Online adverts know you too well

Behavioural Advertising 101: A brief introduction to the types of ads we encounter online — and what they know about us

Online adverts know you too well
Digital devices are capable of seamlessly producing extraordinary results using our data. | Matheus Bertelli, Pexels
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How would you feel if I said I’d seen your web browsing history and that of your neighbours? Everything for the last year: What you view at work, what restaurant you ate at last night, what websites you visit at home, and what Christmas gifts you bought or decided against?

What if I told you I was passing this information on to strangers? And that they were using it to make judgements about you, like what advertisements you see?

What if I told you that you’d given me permission to do this, simply by clicking a button on one of those websites? And that it happens every time you use the Internet? Would it make any difference that I didn’t know your name?