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by m463 2710 days ago
There are a lot of tracking links on that page. It is THE perfect behavioral tracking info to attach to someone's online advertising profiles.
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That would require them to be specifically tracking this questionnaire for that purpose and filing the results against your profile or shadow profile.

As I noted, it is possible to derive a reasonably accurate profile simply from the language a person uses, so if you're on Facebook, or use GMail they have enough data passing through their servers to profile you anyway.

Technology like this:

https://personality-insights-demo.ng.bluemix.net/