• delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    3 months ago

    At that time I honestly doubt NetZero was scanning my emails to deliver targeted ads. Doing that required hiring teams of engineers to write the software to do the scanning, scoring, and then mapping advertisers to specific customer groups. Its non trivial.

    Most ISPs didn’t have the money or the foresight to do that.