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by kube-system 1887 days ago
There's a lot of online marketing companies that do a lot of work in this area. It's pretty easy to do if you have any kind of ID or token to link the data. It can be done with credit card numbers, a phone's location services, membership programs, coupons, etc. Here's some of the stuff Facebook does, which just scratches the surface of what is possible:

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/1150627594978290