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Only they never seem to quite get it: Google: here is x dating site, Me: click, mark as irrelevant. Google: here is y dating site Me: irrelevant Google: z
by reitanqild 10y ago
Only they never seem to quite get it:
Google: here is x dating site,
Me: click, mark as irrelevant.
Google: here is y dating site
Me: irrelevant
Google: z dating site?
Me: nope
Google: lets try an ad for x dating site again then
Me: actually, you got my mail, all my searches for the last 10 years and still you cannot find anything more relevant for a happily married sw engineer?
<reaches for my adblocker>
- dc_gregory 10y agoUnless happily married SW engineers with your search history whom mark dating sites as irrelevant are great for dating site conversions.
- Buge 10y agoYou can change the google settings to specifically give you ads about topics you like https://www.google.com/settings/ads https://www.google.com/settings/ads
- eps 10y agoAh, the "Choose your Vaselin flavor" option.
- reitanqild 10y agoBeen there, done that. Somehow Google think dating sites fall under auto repair, gardening, computer hardware or software or a few other categories I am actually interested in. Or more likely IMO: they don't care.
- nfoz 10y agoI bet they're using you to try and find differentiating factors between the different dating sites. You've already told them that you're willing to provide useful information about dating sites -- now they're just extracting as much info as possible.
- chris_wot 10y agoThey're extracting right till the moment they aren't - ever again.
- prawn 10y agoI think they just have a weak pool of ads to serve. I routinely mark Twitter ads as of no interest to me, and still get virtually nothing I would ever have interest in.