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The targetting doesn't seem to work. I get bombarded with car ads. I don't drive. I'm never going to drive. I don't own a car. I'm never going to own a car. I h
by DanBC 6y ago
The targetting doesn't seem to work. I get bombarded with car ads. I don't drive. I'm never going to drive. I don't own a car. I'm never going to own a car. I have no interest in cars (other than my general anti-car views). I think most (but not all) car use is dumb and the ads don't persuade me otherwise.
Or I'm bombarded with ads for something I've already bought. You bought a rug? Here are 300 ads for other different rugs.
Sometimes the ad placement is terrible. I work in patient safety in English NHS mental health settings. This means I'm frequently searching using the word "suicide". One time I was searching a newspaper website to try to find a report they'd done. Here's the ad that was placed: https://imgur.com/hhOYUJb https://imgur.com/hhOYUJb
But then as well as that I'm also worried about the privacy implications. People share computers and people share accounts, and the ad network has no way of knowing who's looking at the screen at any time.