Originally Posted by d-null

I got an email from a vitamin supplier I had ordered from, confirming my order, and at the top of gmail I noticed a big ad for a discount vitamin supplier....

this seems kind of uncool of google to target ads in that way and basically allow their advertisers to try to poach customers from companies doing business communication over the internet... it would be sort of like intercepting your telephone calls and playing ads to you based on stuff you are ordering over the phone... or reading your usps mail and targeting your junk mail based on who you are getting mail from already