A simple email to self designed to trigger auto-related ads. Ads didn't disappoint.
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Another email, same copy, added "suicide 9/11" in the same font. Ads go away.
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The third email, same copy, but "suicide 9/11" is in smaller and lighter font -- me thinking maybe trigger words can be an invisible part of the signature (click on the image for a larger one). Nope, ads come back.
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Neat experiment. Unfortunately, instead of getting an ad, you were added to one or more government terrorist monitoring systems. Oops, so was I...
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