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by dmarti 3967 days ago
(author of the original article)

That creeped out feeling is your brain letting you know about an information asymmetry -- someone knows more about you than you know about them. When you feel creeped out in a market setting, it's a warning that you're likely to get a bad deal.

Response to some earlier comments on the article:

http://zgp.org/~dmarti/business/arguments-for-targeted-adver...