A BRITISH company is offering men a creepy ad-targeting service that promises to convince your partner to hop in to bed with you.

Here's how it works: you fork over $30 (£23) in exchange for an "innocent-looking link" to share with your wife or girlfriend that attaches a cookie to her device when she clicks on it – and she'll be bombarded with ads for articles designed to arouse her.

7 The Spinner wants to put the power of ad-targeting in the hands of the "average person" Credit: The Spinner

7 The Spinner claims that its service is entirely legal Credit: The Spinner

The firm, which calls itself The Spinner, says the targeted ads will "influence her on a subconscious level to initiate sex”.

As part of the "basic package", the "target" – as they are shockingly referred to – will be "strategically bombarded" with ten articles presented about 180 times over a three month period.

The articles are pinched from women's magazines like Cosmopolitan, according to the company's VP of social and media, Elliot Shefler.

Topics include “Why women should initiate intimacy more often” and “3 reasons why you should take the lead and make advances on your husband”.

The creepy ad-targeting services offered by The Spinner The firm's shady campaigns also target women who want to control what their husbands see online and CEOs who want to target workers... A “help around the house!” service – the target: “husband”

A "don't do drugs" campaign – the target: "professional athletes"

A "quit smoking" offering – the target: "loved ones"

A "prevent phishing attacks" package – the target: "loved ones"

A "play slots!" campaign – the target "existing slot players".

The Spinner claims that all this is legal, but shrugs off any liability by placing the responsibility on customers.

“If the initiator of the service (i.e. the party that ordered and/or paid for the service) sends the "targeting link" to any other user via any digital media, it is the initiator's responsibility to refer the "sent" party to The Spinner's Terms of use and privacy policy,” reads the company's T&Cs.

But why anyone would come clean at the risk of ruining their dastardly masterplan to get some nookie beats us.

The company also backtracks by saying that the sites “the target” visits, and that host the ads, will have their own cookie notices.

7 This is just one of the articles the company shows to feamle "targets" Credit: The Spinner

Despite The Spinner's claims to the contrary, privacy advocates have slammed the business as potentially illegal and unethical.

“These are sex-pest adverts. They’re unwanted and likely unlawful," Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group told The Sun.

“Partners won’t have agreed to this," he added. "Frankly I wouldn’t want some mastermind computer deciding how to get me in the mood without my knowledge – would you?"

Web giants like Google and Facebook already make billions from their respective ad-targeting services that serve users advertisements based on the sites they visit.

But The Spinner takes things one step further by promising to psychologically manipulate your significant other.

7 Other services offered by The Spinner target "loved ones" and "professional athletes" Credit: The Spinner

7 Yet more campaigns, some of which allow CEOs to target their employees Credit: The Spinner

"The psychology behind the ads is simple: exposure to the same message over and over again until it gets to the target's subconscious," Shefler told The Sun.

Worse still, it seems the company knows what it's doing is problematic but simply doesn't care.

"It's unethical in many ways," admitted Shefler, adding "But it's the business model of all media. If you're against it, you're against all media".

He picked out Nike as an example, explaining that if you visit the brand's website it serves you a cookie, which then tailors the browsing experience to you every time you come back.

A shopping website would also use cookies to remember the items you're storing in a virtual basket before checkout.

And a social network might use cookies to track the links you click, and then use that information to show you more relevant or interesting links in the future.

7 The site is filled with positive reviews from customers Credit: The Spinner

All this is legal and is generally used to improve the experience for users.

What The Spinner is doing, according to its exec, is putting that "power in the hands of the average person".

Shefler added that the "initiate sex" service is its most popular offering, with around 6,000 punters signed up to it.

And its site is filled with comments from, um, satisfied customers. "It worked like magic! Totally worth $30," writes one person.

Another says: "So far it only happened once. Still definitely worth it!!"

7 This is the email sent to customers of the "initiate sex" service, including the link that plants a cookie on the target's device Credit: The Spinner

Shefler also said that he "honestly thinks that many [men] don't refer their partner" to his firm's "terms and conditions".

The Spinner started life in January of this year. Shefler claims the company is owned by a larger, London-based "agency" that provides it with "big data" and "AI" tools.

But he wouldn't say who this shadowy corporation is.

The VP also claimed that his firm used to provide ad-targeting services to politicians, but it stopped following Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal in March.

Rachel Adamson, a solicitor specialising in fraud and regulatory crime at Slater + Gordon, claims The Spinner operates in a legal grey area.

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"This could be seen, if coupled with other behaviour, as part of a series of acts that could form the necessary elements for an offence of Harassment (stalking) and potentially [fall under] the relatively new offence of ‘coercive and controlling behaviour’ (S76 Serious Crime Act 2015) - in my view though this wouldn’t be enough on its own," she told The Sun.

But she added: "It may well be distasteful I don’t think there is any offence committed per se."

For now, The Spinner is active and offers a range of packages, including a “help around the house!” service aimed at women who want to target their husband. And a "don't do drugs" campaign for professional athletes.

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