I have an acquaintance who recently sent me an email from a google
account, its an anonymous account (in the sense that the name cannot
be connected to place of origin...).

This guy resides a particular town, and the funny thing was when i
opened his email, the text ads on the side were related to the town
where the guy lives... in none of his correspondence with me has this
person mentioned the name of the town or even the country where the
town is...

Isnt this a dangerous way to present text-ads...? in the sense that
someone could be using a gmail account for anonymous correspondence
purposes.. and the person receiving the email could deduce where the
anonymous corrspondent could be from based on the ads presented ?

(many online guides e.g.
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/guide/ recommend
gmail as sufficiently anonymous...)


ashok

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