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My Facebook and every other site with adtech tends to spend most of its time filled with ads for the last major purchase that I researched online and then bough

My Facebook and every other site with adtech tends to spend most of its time filled with ads for the last major purchase that I researched online and then bought something for, often advertising the exact thing that I just got one of and won't need to replace for years.

Hasknewbie 10y ago
A.K.A the Amazon Suggestion Effect ("You just bought a fridge, here are 12 more fridges!"). I thought Amazon was keeping their suggestions dumb on purpose, so as not to appear too creepy, apparently I was overestimating how smart adtech is in general.
- losteric 10y ago
  I always assumed they showed those ads in case the order was cancelled or returned.
  - Chaebixi 10y ago
    Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
baddox 10y ago
It took about six months for the online mattress ads to settle down after I quickly (within a day or two) researched and purchased one. I recently purchased an expensive pair of headphones and I suspect to see those for the next several months.
- foobarchu 10y ago
  Often its not even smart enough to pick up on things you're really going to buy. A few months ago I did some research on designs for folding wooden tablet stand to base my own build on, and one of the images I clicked on from Google Images shows up to this day as one of the prominent ads on every Wikia fansite I visit with that particular computer. I didn't even visit the store it's sold on, and they're still clinging for dear life to this one scrap of information on what I might buy.