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Google beat them to it. Ad words is insane.... wanna target by individual town? Yes you can and more

paganel 10y ago
Not sure about that. For the last week or so I've been bombarded with Porsche ads in the YT videos I'm listening even though I will never have that much money in order to buy a new Porsche vehicle.
- czep 10y ago
  > even though I will never have that much money in order to buy a new Porsche vehicle You're not meant to buy it. You're meant to be envious of it. The target market is purchasing your envy. See Veblen's _Theory of the Leisure Class_.
- ryuker16 10y ago
  You probably viewed some Porsche stuff or did a search.
  - paganel 10y ago
    I sure did, as I looked at countless other car-related videos, just found it interesting that the system behind the Google ads couldn't "guess" that I don't really have the money to buy a Porsche (for starters I fly low-cost, which Google knows). But as the other commenter says, maybe I'm not meant to buy it, just to be envious of it, which I most certainly am.
    - ryuker16 10y ago
      Porsche probably pays more for ads due to much higher profit margins per each sale (way higher than Japanese cars). 1 Porsche buy might be worth 5 camera buyers in terms ofor profit. DUI lawyers make bank on each DUI case (5k-20k+) so the price per click averages near $50!!!!!
mcone 10y ago
Facebook allows you to target by city too. In fact, several individuals have used Facebook to display ads to just one person. See this account, for instance: http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/ http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
- Inthenameofmine 10y ago
  That's insane. With de-anonymised data and some sort of personalisation engine a single person could change the results of an entire election that way!
slantyyz 10y ago
Ad words aside, Google News is incredibly bad at aggregating fake news/farmed content into their real news feeds. For a lot of the news categories Google thinks or knows I like, I get tons of headlines from questionable news sources, and the last time I looked, their preferences wouldn't let me blacklist repeat offenders from showing up in my main headlines feed.
- _delirium 10y ago
  You can excise sites one by one, though it's a bit clunky. If you're logged in, click "Personalize" at the top-right, then type in the publication's name under "Adjust Sources", click + (if it's found) to add it to your customized sources list, then drag the frequency slider for that source all the way to the left. I'm not sure if this precisely blocks it, but it should mostly get it out of your Google News feed.
  - slantyyz 10y ago
    Thanks, this is useful. The last time I tried editing my preferences was within the Android News & Headlines app. Turns out I should have just done it in a web browser. You are right though, it is clunky.

Not sure about that. For the last week or so I've been bombarded with Porsche ads in the YT videos I'm listening even though I will never have that much money in order to buy a new Porsche vehicle.

czep 10y ago
> even though I will never have that much money in order to buy a new Porsche vehicle You're not meant to buy it. You're meant to be envious of it. The target market is purchasing your envy. See Veblen's _Theory of the Leisure Class_.
ryuker16 10y ago
You probably viewed some Porsche stuff or did a search.
- paganel 10y ago
  I sure did, as I looked at countless other car-related videos, just found it interesting that the system behind the Google ads couldn't "guess" that I don't really have the money to buy a Porsche (for starters I fly low-cost, which Google knows). But as the other commenter says, maybe I'm not meant to buy it, just to be envious of it, which I most certainly am.
  - ryuker16 10y ago
    Porsche probably pays more for ads due to much higher profit margins per each sale (way higher than Japanese cars). 1 Porsche buy might be worth 5 camera buyers in terms ofor profit. DUI lawyers make bank on each DUI case (5k-20k+) so the price per click averages near $50!!!!!

mcone 10y ago

Facebook allows you to target by city too. In fact, several individuals have used Facebook to display ads to just one person. See this account, for instance: http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/ http://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

Inthenameofmine 10y ago
That's insane. With de-anonymised data and some sort of personalisation engine a single person could change the results of an entire election that way!

slantyyz 10y ago

Ad words aside, Google News is incredibly bad at aggregating fake news/farmed content into their real news feeds. For a lot of the news categories Google thinks or knows I like, I get tons of headlines from questionable news sources, and the last time I looked, their preferences wouldn't let me blacklist repeat offenders from showing up in my main headlines feed.

_delirium 10y ago
You can excise sites one by one, though it's a bit clunky. If you're logged in, click "Personalize" at the top-right, then type in the publication's name under "Adjust Sources", click + (if it's found) to add it to your customized sources list, then drag the frequency slider for that source all the way to the left. I'm not sure if this precisely blocks it, but it should mostly get it out of your Google News feed.
- slantyyz 10y ago
  Thanks, this is useful. The last time I tried editing my preferences was within the Android News & Headlines app. Turns out I should have just done it in a web browser. You are right though, it is clunky.