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“I really like targeted ads. It helps me discover useful products.” /s Definitely read that line way too many times.
by mirntyfirty 4y ago
“I really like targeted ads. It helps me discover useful products.” /s Definitely read that line way too many times.
- EnKopVand 4y agoI haven’t been particularly careful with my online privacy, and I actually click on advertisements on social media occasionally. Typically for clothes or blood bowl related stuff and I sometimes buy the thing I clicked on. So there is no doubt that targeted advertisements work on me, the thing is, however, and this is completely anecdotal, a lot of it is just really bad. Recently I have been getting a lot of advertisements for guns. I’m Danish and I don’t have a hunting license which means I can’t legally buy guns. This is just one example, others have provoked me so much I’ve actually gone into my advertisement settings to block the sender forever. If that’s the best they can come up with, with all my data, then they can frankly just fuck right off. Especially because it wouldn’t be hard for them to “target” the blood bowl advertisement without tracking my every move considering it’s the only reason I have social media accounts outside of HN and LinkedIn. What is really interesting to me, however, is that I don’t notice much of a difference in the advertisements on Google and DuckDuckGo, one knows more about my life than I do and the other simply goes “well he searched for blood bowl, maybe I’ll show him some blood bowl advertisements”. In fact I’m only on DuckDuckGo because the Google SEO bullshit has made the front page of Google results useless for almost all of my searches.