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That first great contradiction in terms. The algorithm which picks up that you bought sneakers on Amazon last week, so the most productive use of an advertiser’s dollars over the next six months is carpet-bombing every unoccupied cranny in your cyber-landscape with advertisements for exercise plimsolls.