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Somehow I have the opposite experience of everyone else on this site? I frequently get targeted ads for exactly the item I'm interested in, e.g. a pair a shoes
by throw__away7391 4y ago
Somehow I have the opposite experience of everyone else on this site?
I frequently get targeted ads for exactly the item I'm interested in, e.g. a pair a shoes that actually look very similar to a pair I was considering but from a different brand.
My YouTube recommendations bring me a ton of new videos on topics I'm interested in. I do a tiny amount of curation, but overall rarely get objectively bad videos recommended.
Amazon recommends consumable products for me at approximately the rate I consume them. When my pet died and I stopped purchasing treats, they seem to have figured that out and stopped recommending them.
The "you just bought a car, would you like to buy another car?" does happen from time to time, but not all that often to be honest.
- 2c2c2c 4y agoMy guess is targeted advertising works great up until the point you share your devices with other people. parents and their kids sharing accounts, laptops, tablets leads to a bunch of junk input and this makes up the majority of population
- zinekeller 4y agoPersonal anecdote but my personal experience is that targeted advertising seems to be predicting my past me. I can't describe it exactly, but it seems to never realise that I'm done with (something), especially with once-in-a-moon purchases (like laptops).