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I just want online advertising to at least be better than trying to sell me a toaster after I literally just purchased a toaster. I only need one toaster.
by awesomerobot 10y ago
I just want online advertising to at least be better than trying to sell me a toaster after I literally just purchased a toaster. I only need one toaster.
- mevile 10y agoI bought a new expensive GPU on newegg and now every other week newegg sends me emails about new deals for graphics cards. In what market does that behavior make sense? Most pc gamers probably buy a graphics card once every two years at most unless they're filthy rich.
- Bombthecat 10y agoIt affects your next buy.you will think about that company and those cards next time.
- jsymolon 10y agoGPUs are the worst examples. They change radically from year to year, so spamming right after you buy is a waste of money.
- JorgeGT 10y agoExactly this. How is Amazon smart enough to know I have viewed item X yet not that I have just finally bought it? They should have some "oh, he bought it, let's switch" flag.
- mpeg 10y agoCareful what you ask for... being able to exclude you based on a conversion means better tracking. Tracking is not something that can be easily improved, either you use cookies which are acceptable, widespread, but sadly very limited in functionality or you get into the world of supercookies and fingerprinting which is not yet properly regulated and where a few players are disregarding industry self-regulation to get as much data as possible.
- chupy 10y agoThose few players that are disregarding the industry self-regulation practices are some of its biggest players.
- subhobroto 10y agoAbsolutely. I shared my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750840
- cmac2992 10y agoIts very possible to do this on most ad platforms. Some people are just lazy or aren't good at their job.
- awesomerobot 10y agoLiterally one of the biggest ecommerce platforms on the planet (Amazon) doesn't do it.
- rtkwe 10y agoUnless it's coming directly from who you bought the toaster from they can't do that without access to your purchase history which they'd be thrilled to have but I doubt most people would want to give.
- awesomerobot 10y agoIt's coming from Amazon. They literally know what I purchased because I purchased it from them.
- hugh4 10y agoHey bro, wanna buy some bread?
- Scarblac 10y agoOK. You just bought this paperback, we won't show you ads for it anymore. What are similar things... this hardback version of the same book, are you interested in it? And Booking.com should just learn to delete all that they know of my searches when I actually book something.