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This has always bothered me too - guess they focused more on tracking users and building a strong graph rather than actually making good recommendations. Perha
by ry_ry 9y ago
This has always bothered me too - guess they focused more on tracking users and building a strong graph rather than actually making good recommendations.
Perhaps the coming A.I.pocalypse™ will give us better predictive suggestion algorithms before turning on us... Or the sentient networks just start recommending really dangerous products to wipe ourselves out with! ;(
Chatting with friends, I've discovered FB are also really, really good at showing me adverts for what other people are buying my chums for Xmas, which is of limited use frankly.
- friendzis 9y agoI don't know how much does it have to do with advertisers choosing profiling criteria and profiling itself, but often it feels like ad targeting is actively trying to teach me to ignore the ads. Not really technical friend gets a smarthpone. We check specs on gsmarena, then check few other phones, read a bit more. Lots of hits over short time. Ad targeting: you must be searching for a smartphone, here get some ads for smartphones! I check various pages over few weeks, compare phones, check availability. Ad targeting: very rare hits, must be accidental. For the past few weeks I have been selecting a pair of products. Watching youtube, reading various forums, browsing manufacturer pages, browsing stores, comparing prices, usual stuff. A single ad for at least one of those two product categories? Nope, instead I see ads to subscribe to my current carrier.