Wednesday, January 05, 2011

So This Happened

I'm reasonably immune to online advertising, but while checking ye olde Gmail one of the sidebar links caught my eye. Since I can't reveal the content of the email (it was calling related) and don't want to embarras the sender I didn't take a screenshot. However, here is the copypasta:
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Really? That was the best match based on the content of an email discussing bishopric assignments? Maybe this work PC has old cookies from a former user on it and she had some unusual browsing habits. However, since I was logged into Gmail, shouldn't it recognize what I'm likely to be interested in based on years of previous use? Shows you how much Google knows.

I don't even write poetry.