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A friend received hair loss ads after using wifi at my place -I, the one with hair loss, use an ad blocker. Reddit app shows me ads for US restaurants. I live

• wyager 5y ago
  > You tell me the smartest and best paid software engineers in the world work on this mess? I’m pretty sure adtech doesn’t pay the best.
• barbarr 5y ago
  AdTech just shows ads from the highest bidder. If a bicycle advertiser overpaid for ads and decided that they need millions of impressions, whereas a highly targeted toothpaste brand decided they need 1000 highly targeted impressions, you're going to see the bicycle ad first. Most advertisers just spray ads at people, so as a user, you end up seeing useless untargeted ads more than you see highly targeted ones.
• freeflight 5y ago
  Any chance you are browsing with a VPN? If all AdTech was as bad as you claim it to be, then Google, and the whole sector, wouldn't be as massive as they are today. Just like with anything: There are implementations that don't work at all/are easily fooled, but there are also systems running so effective, that you most likely don't even notice their "invisible hand" guiding you or at least guiding what you see.
• diogenescynic 5y ago
  Your friend mentioned the ad to you, so it kinda worked? It did find its targeted audience.
  • Traubenfuchs 5y ago
    I guess -it's all useless, expensive vitamins though.