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Its called commercial surveillance and its been happening for a while. And state surveillance and that was also happening for a while and it's been both on a mass scale also for a while. Companies are serving people ads that they know push people to buy. They are using psychology based on their profile and based on general psychological exploits that work for whatever reason (like evolutionary traits that used to be advantageous for survival once...)