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Everyone is watching what you do online. How user tracking with cookies works

by Rui Figueiredo blinkingcaret.com published 2018-06-135 min read

Have you ever wondered how after you visit a website you start seeing ads about that website everywhere. This post explains how user tracking enables it.

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