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It’s a programmatic targeted ad, brother. What shows up in that space is a fault of your own browsing history

• macintux 4y ago
  Apparently I’m supposedly interested in golf, skin care, and oh so many bracelets. Whatever algorithm is in play is suboptimal.
  • hammock 4y ago
    Optimal for what? Advertising is a two sided market with advertisers bidding on the other side. It could so happen that the bracelet brand was willing to pay more for your eyeballs than any of the brands you actually like. Without knowing the bids there’s no way to evaluate if what was shown was suboptimal
    • JohnHaugeland 4y ago
      > Optimal for what? Useful or correct targeting.
    • macintux 4y ago
      Not optimal for judging my interests at any rate.
• JohnHaugeland 4y ago
  > It’s a programmatic targeted ad, brother. What shows up in that space is a fault of your own browsing history That'd be startling. I'm as deep blue as it gets, I've never opened any of that Alex Jones stuff, I don't use Facebook, and I was getting "let's go brandon" shirts. Absolutely nothing about my browsing history should lead to that. I mostly look at math stuff, programming stuff, video games, and Netflix. . > What shows up in that space is a fault of your own browsing history I understand why you're saying that, and it makes sense in context But also, I got a four friends on Discord to try it, who are just as blue as I am, and three of them got similarly horse apple paste results.