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Pretty accurate actually, at least for me.

I read the title of this post as a cliffhanger, promising a shocking ending, but it doesn't really do it for me. I'd rather have them show me relevant ads than random ones, personally. I opted out for a while but found opting in to be the better experience for me. To each their own, I guess.



It had American Football and Cooking for me, neither of which I can remember ever expressing interest in.

It nailed the programming stuff except for conflating Java the language and Java the virtual machine, but hey, even humans often make that mistake.


I wonder how much of that is due to a simple misinterpretation of some of the sites you visit. For example, if the fairly recent article on Google's "beatbox" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356) and my subsequent searches led to my purported interest in "Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Urban & Hip-Hop - Rap & Hip-Hop".




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