Nothing is perfect, but ultimately everything comes down to aggregates. Most systems don’t care about you or your profile (it’s all automated), and generating n

Nothing is perfect, but ultimately everything comes down to aggregates. Most systems don’t care about you or your profile (it’s all automated), and generating noise will make your profile quirky for sure, and your ads will match who ever else has accumulated a similar aggregate behavior. I’m not in the ad business so what I’m saying is only based on my proximity to it, so take it with a grain of salt. One thing that ultimately breaks through the noise isn’t what ads you see or click on, but what you actually buy. If you buy things and aren’t completely blocking every ad network, you’ll massively boost the signal. Also any real browsing routines will still be in the data, and I am assuming a lot of ad networks are informed by out of band data they purchase and things like ISP data they buy. Ultimately the proof is in the pudding. You should experiment with various approaches and then see if you are served relevant ads, if you aren’t, you’re winning :) FWIW I get a ton of irrelevant ads because of retargeting. I visit a lot of my customer’s websites in doing my job and they’re not usually sites I’d go to, so most of the ads I see on FB and Twitter are based on retargeting from those sites.