
The advertising trap
The Documentary Podcast
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Are You Paranoid if They're Out to Get You?
The story was that they started using their pregnancy prediction score mechanism, where they could, base on your purchasing choices, figure out if you were pregnant. And according to the sto this infuriated one american dad in minnesota. The man said, she's still in high school and you're sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs. Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant? But the man's outrage was short lived. He later checked in with his daughter and discovered more details about what was going on behind his back at home. She was, in fact, pregnant, just as the clever marketing had anticipated.
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