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It's not that crazy, they have several signals that they can use to make that determination. It's not black magic or anything "dodgy".

It's probably some combination of your IP, cookies, location, account relationships, credit cards, etc etc. There's a lot of pretty simple data they can use to make the decision to show her Ads on Facebook's Ad platform.

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