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In my experience surfing the web without adblockers or account containers, the whole "ads of stuff you may want" thing is bogus and has been utterly blown up to
by krsdcbl 4y ago
In my experience surfing the web without adblockers or account containers, the whole "ads of stuff you may want" thing is bogus and has been utterly blown up to justify tracking.
Most Ads fall into a few categories:
- in-app ads that target you for known account demographics: those tend to be targeted at simple stereotypes and seldomly actually something i might want
- Ads on news websites or blogs that aren't much more targeted than what could be derived from the general interest group / general target audience
- And finally, the bulk of all the oh-so-perfectly-targeted ads: are actually mostly just retargeting automations that keep infuriatingly showing you the very things or similar things you just bought for the next few days
I'm yet to discover a product that would have been nice to have via ads