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by zinekeller 1221 days ago
> as recent as 2018

> did something change since then?

GDPR, LGDP and equivalent laws plus the tangibility of emails (instead of the relatively-nebulous web history which Google could simply blame on "we only know what website we're serving from, we don't track you"). I don't know if US residents still get targeted ads using mail data though.