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If you're not paying, you're the product. How this caches out is that you will never be served the ads that are best for you. Instead, you'll be shown whatever
by ThrustVectoring 9y ago
If you're not paying, you're the product.
How this caches out is that you will never be served the ads that are best for you. Instead, you'll be shown whatever the most expensive targeting options are for you, given the information the advertising platform knows about you. In this case, since you buy bras, it's ads for bras. Visit a coding bootcamp website and get tracked and you'll get ads for coding bootcamps - even if you're currently attending the bootcamp you're getting advertised for.
Practical advice: start doing a lot of online web shopping and trackable stuff for mattresses. You'll probably get ads for mattresses instead. "Interested in buying a mattress" is a very high-value category for marketers to target.
- cardiffspaceman 9y agoI can validate and top the mattress thing. I get ads for expensive cruise ship voyages most of the time ($25K for two portholes looking out at Antarctica for two weeks, per person; one can dream). Practically speaking, do a decent research session on something that presses pleasant buttons. Of course, if a California King pillow-top mattress is your thing, then go (search) for it (they are nice).