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I buy running shoes from Amazon. The next 4 weeks Facebook and Reddit and random websites show me nothing but ads for running shoes. I already have my shoes, do
by sampo 8y ago
I buy running shoes from Amazon. The next 4 weeks Facebook and Reddit and random websites show me nothing but ads for running shoes. I already have my shoes, don't need another pair, thank you.
Am I a minority, not being a serial shoe shopper? Or is whatever machine learning those companies are running really that simplistic?
- rifung 8y agoI've had this happen to me many times before. My assumption was always that they can see that you looked for running shoes but not that you bought them.
- samatman 8y agoThe shoe market has 'whales' who spend a double-digit percentage of a median income on shoes every year. That said, no, it's really that simplistic. Amazon will do the same thing for vacuum cleaners, and vacuum cleaner whales do not exist, as far as I know.