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Had a similar experience a few years ago. I cleared cookies and visited YouTube a couple days later. It showed me an advert for an oven starring Florence Hender
by flomo 8y ago
Had a similar experience a few years ago. I cleared cookies and visited YouTube a couple days later. It showed me an advert for an oven starring Florence Henderson (Brady Bunch mom), who died not long afterwards. Google has all this data on me, but you take away their cookies once in a while, and they think you are a housewife.
- manigandham 8y agoWhat did you expect when you cleared cookies? How do you think they know who you are otherwise?
- flomo 8y agoMy IP address is surprisingly stable. (Know this because I have to update a work app when it changes.) I'd logged into and used many google properties after I cleared cookies. What I searched for on Youtube was not oven or housewife related. My guess is these targeters are maybe too sophisticated and rely on reams of data, social media logins, and etc. If you run a adblocker and clear cookies once in a while, you can "hide in plain sight".
- scarejunba 8y agoPeople over attribute things to The Algorithm. In truth, with little information to go on, it's often the case that no valuable ad was available to be shown and so it falls back. It's not that it's oven or housewife related. It may even be a wholly untargeted ad.
- lilyball 8y agoThe cynic in me wants to suggest that they noticed you cleared your cookies and deliberately served up a memorable-but-clearly-irrelevant ad to make you think that you had successfully fooled them.