In April, attorney Christine Dudley was listening to a book on her iPhone while playing a game on her Android tablet when she started to see in-game ads that reflected the audiobooks she recently checked out of the San Francisco Public Library.
Her audiobook consumption, she explained, had been highly focused the previous month, focused on a specific subgenre that she doesn’t believe would come up by chance.
“You don’t coincidentally come across mobile ads [for that particular subgenre],” she told The Register. “Those ads made me extremely angry.”
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Claburn, T. (2024, May 18). An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That’s not supposed to happen. The Register. https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/mystery_of_the_targeted_mobile_ads/