[indspenceable]

No - it focuses advertising efforts on people who have visited your website. So, you look at a jacket, but then aren't sure you want to buy it, retargeting makes you see that jacket again and again until you change your mind. Then you keep seeing it anyway.

[derefr]

You know, I'd almost be willing to give ad companies access to my credit card statements, so they'd know when I bought something and stop telling me to buy it.

And I bet ad companies realize this. This privacy-invasion paradigm is only getting started.

[TylerE]

Netflix is a big offender here.

[PhasmaFelis]

If they know every page I've visited on the site, how do they not know when I've made the purchase?