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Targeted advertising works extremely well. I actually stopped using Instagram because the adverts were so accurate that it scared me.
by dfgdghdf 6y ago
Targeted advertising works extremely well. I actually stopped using Instagram because the adverts were so accurate that it scared me.
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoto be fair, that could in part be the Baader-Meinhoff effect [1], where you'll only remember the ones that were scarily accurate (though I do agree with you). --- [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
- dfgdghdf 6y agoI don't know what the hit rate was, because as you suggest I likely ignored the irrelevant ads. However, the ads that were relevant were so eerily accurate (including things many of my friends and acquaintances wouldn't know about me) that I didn't want anything more to do with the platform.