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You can avoid much of these issues by browsing in incognito or private mode when purchasing or looking to purchase or something. You can make your life a lot ea

by frfl 8y ago

You can avoid much of these issues by browsing in incognito or private mode when purchasing or looking to purchase or something. You can make your life a lot easier using firefox containers + container addons that automatically switch to isolated site-specific containers when browsing ebay or amazon or even facebook. Otherwise you're just inviting all kinds of cookies and tracking without making even hard for them

dhimes 8y ago
The point is that the ads are a waste, and that the advertisers aren't getting their money's worth. It's really remarkable that they still haven't caught on to this.
- oever 8y ago
  Is there even a way to check if the google and facebook charge the correct number of advert impressions? Seems to me like they can print money by reporting higher numbers.
  - dhimes 8y ago
    I haven't played that game in a long time, but back then they were the sole determiners of whether a "click" was valid or not. I got charged for clicks for which people only stayed for a second or so. Now there were a lot of people who claimed they can make a decision about purchasing from a website in a second, but I don't think they're thinking it through. I think they were erroneous clicks or competitors, yet I was charged. They may have improved.
- repolfx 8y ago
  The ads are not a waste. It's called remarketing and it does boost conversion numbers over raw untargetted ads. The ads are targeting people who went to a site, browsed around, didn't buy but might do in future (much more likely than a random unselected person). Generally the ad network does not know if you really completed a purchase or dropped off during the funnel. Presumably advertisers could set up a hook to inform the ad network if you did purchase or not, but I guess they don't care enough to do so.

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You can avoid much of these issues by browsing in incognito or private mode when purchasing or looking to purchase or something. You can make your life a lot ea

by frfl 8y ago

dhimes 8y ago
The point is that the ads are a waste, and that the advertisers aren't getting their money's worth. It's really remarkable that they still haven't caught on to this.
- oever 8y ago
  Is there even a way to check if the google and facebook charge the correct number of advert impressions? Seems to me like they can print money by reporting higher numbers.
  - dhimes 8y ago
    I haven't played that game in a long time, but back then they were the sole determiners of whether a "click" was valid or not. I got charged for clicks for which people only stayed for a second or so. Now there were a lot of people who claimed they can make a decision about purchasing from a website in a second, but I don't think they're thinking it through. I think they were erroneous clicks or competitors, yet I was charged. They may have improved.
- repolfx 8y ago
  The ads are not a waste. It's called remarketing and it does boost conversion numbers over raw untargetted ads. The ads are targeting people who went to a site, browsed around, didn't buy but might do in future (much more likely than a random unselected person). Generally the ad network does not know if you really completed a purchase or dropped off during the funnel. Presumably advertisers could set up a hook to inform the ad network if you did purchase or not, but I guess they don't care enough to do so.