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Can I ask you, what are those ads you see? Are they mostly related to greyhounds?

• netsharc 4y ago
  FB/IG has a "Why am I seeing this ad?" and you can see what demographics being targeted are, e.g. location, gender, age range. Funnily enough, Facebook has been showing me ads for lingerie the last few days, although I put in real age and gender (male), and it should know I'm single...
  • tomjen3 4y ago
    It is probably somebody trying to sell to a new market (men buying gifts for their dates). I got so many ads for dating sites and related crap when I set my FB status to single. I will never get why FB shows so terrible ads when they supposedly know so much about us.
  • bedast 4y ago
    What have you been searching/browsing? ;) Instagram uses Facebook/Meta algorithms for serving ads, which includes behavior. I almost never post anything about diabetes in Instagram, but because many other sites (ie: reddit) use Facebook libraries for whatever reason they are using them, Facebook knows I'm diabetic, and I get served ads for diabetes products, bogus supplements that "cure" diabetes, health programs that use diabetes products for non-diabetes purposes (yes, this is a thing), and so on. If a site uses a FB tracker library (which is going to be part of FB based auth), your usage is tracked and info based on that is used to serve ads across all Meta products.
• bedast 4y ago
  Almost no greyhound related ads. I see occasional pet related ads, but not nearly as common as bogus health supplements, diabetes related stuff (I'm diabetic), random garbage I don't care about, Amazon, and other accounts.