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YouTube's strategy for showing me ads seems to be to show me the same ad over and over again for months until I am totally sick of the product in question. For

YouTube's strategy for showing me ads seems to be to show me the same ad over and over again for months until I am totally sick of the product in question. For months it was BMW, who I wasn't going to buy a car from anyway, and then it was these games which I now passionately hate.

spzb 6y ago
Facebook's obsessed with showing me ads for some kind of plastic earplug for treating tinnitus and non-chafing underpants at the moment. What I don't get is who the heck all the people under the ad commenting about how great the product is are coming from. Is anybody that excited about buying something that they make a point to look out for the ad in future so they can comment on it?
- arethuza 6y ago
  I am now tempted to start searching for anti tinnitus underpants just to see what effect this has on the adverts I get in future ;-)
- ceejayoz 6y ago
  > What I don't get is who the heck all the people under the ad commenting about how great the product is are coming from. They're either bots, or paid.
- C1sc0cat 6y ago
  I (Male in the UK) get a lot of adds for manscaping products - basically a shaver for your nether regions and a lot of those robovoiced portrait mode ones for bizarre niche tools.
aeyes 6y ago
YouTube (and Facebook, because it was mentioned in this thread) have a button in the ad which lets you mark it as "please never show me this again".
- arethuza 6y ago
  I didn't use to log into to watch YouTube and it gives fairly large thumbs up/down controls which I used vigorously - the "Don't show me this again" is behind the tiniest (i) icon.
- mint2 6y ago
  Why would we help them after they’ve put such a shitty product out there and harassed us with a bad ad repeatedly. Now we have to do the targeting for them too?
Barrin92 6y ago
the same thing is happening with actual videos to me. Youtube just keeps recommending me the same stuff, it totally overshoots. This has bothered me a long time but it feels like it has gotten worse

spzb 6y ago

Facebook's obsessed with showing me ads for some kind of plastic earplug for treating tinnitus and non-chafing underpants at the moment. What I don't get is who the heck all the people under the ad commenting about how great the product is are coming from. Is anybody that excited about buying something that they make a point to look out for the ad in future so they can comment on it?

arethuza 6y ago
I am now tempted to start searching for anti tinnitus underpants just to see what effect this has on the adverts I get in future ;-)
ceejayoz 6y ago
> What I don't get is who the heck all the people under the ad commenting about how great the product is are coming from. They're either bots, or paid.
C1sc0cat 6y ago
I (Male in the UK) get a lot of adds for manscaping products - basically a shaver for your nether regions and a lot of those robovoiced portrait mode ones for bizarre niche tools.

aeyes 6y ago

YouTube (and Facebook, because it was mentioned in this thread) have a button in the ad which lets you mark it as "please never show me this again".

arethuza 6y ago
I didn't use to log into to watch YouTube and it gives fairly large thumbs up/down controls which I used vigorously - the "Don't show me this again" is behind the tiniest (i) icon.
mint2 6y ago
Why would we help them after they’ve put such a shitty product out there and harassed us with a bad ad repeatedly. Now we have to do the targeting for them too?

Barrin92 6y ago

the same thing is happening with actual videos to me. Youtube just keeps recommending me the same stuff, it totally overshoots. This has bothered me a long time but it feels like it has gotten worse