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I knew a guy who would serially impulse buy things off Instagram. I don't know about plane tickets, but his apartment was full of random shit he bought off his

• lostlogin 5y ago
  If you could find a few of these people, being a middle man for advertising campaigns targeting them would be one sleazy side business.
  • whimsicalism 5y ago
    This is already a thing. To be honest, any of the advertising schemes being dreamed up here in the comments section of HN are already a thing.
• sammalloy 5y ago
  > I knew a guy who would serially impulse buy things off Instagram. No lie, Insta knows what I want to buy before I know, and it’s very scary. I’m not an impulse buyer by any stretch of the imagination, but their advertising is some of the best I’ve ever seen anywhere on the internet.
  • Spooky23 5y ago
    Instagram knows nothing about me, i saw the ads for the Canadian metal top the other day. They are the modern version of home shopping network. They make a fortune out of lonely people buying random shit.
  • girvo 5y ago
    That should not be surprising considering who owns them and how much data they have on us.