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Searched Google for SMS API providers and clicked a paid advert

4 pointsby cl8tonabout 12 years ago
Now I’ve received several random emails from Twilio like providers, addressed to random names at my domain, since I’m the catch all for my domain, I’m seeing them WTH!<p>I cannot believe this is just coincident, do you think it was Google (since I was logged in with them) or the websites I visited desperately scanning their web logs?

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jfosterabout 12 years ago
There was a blog post on hn a while back that could provide an explanation for this. Since you provide such information to some companies, they can share that with a third party that uses tracking cookies. Any website using that same third party to track their visitors then gains access to the contact details of their visitors.