Big Spammer is Watching You 2- Visit Pakistan

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2013/07/big-spammer-is-watching-you.html.
It has happened again! This time it was really weird. I watched a twenty minute video about a luxury coach in Pakistan. The film shows it being cleaned and maintained. This is followed by some scenes showing more conventional long-distance public road transport from that same country being driven and built. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtyKqyPvEE4. I watched the entire video at normal speed and then went to check my emails... and I gasped! I had just received two emails with the subject line: "Visit Pakistan"; one was from a website called travelup.com advertising the best value plane flights and hotels for a holiday in Pakistan. The second was from the Pakistani National Tourism Coordination Board, see: https://tourism.gov.pk. Both emails arrived while I was watching that YouTube upload. How is this possible? Coincidence? I'm sure your average skeppa would say so, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html. I know that in this situation there is nothing inherently malevolent involved in my online activities being traced and scrutinized in this way; it's simply a standard marketing practice that targets me with specific promotional material because some AI has decided that me watching that video means I might be planning a trip to Pakistan. I'm not, as it happens. Despite that, the same technology and methods could be used by the government to profile me and that information could be used to my detriment in numerous different ways. That worries me.