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My dad browses the web without adblocker on his smartphone and tablet and he never clears his cookies on these devices either. It should be easy to target him w
by wewxjfq 4y ago
My dad browses the web without adblocker on his smartphone and tablet and he never clears his cookies on these devices either. It should be easy to target him with advertisement, and yet he mentioned how irrelevant all the ads are and that he couldn't understand why companies kept paying for them. So they can't show him interesting ads despite observing his browsing activity for years.
I believe the only effective form of online advertisement is saturating search results with sponsored links, which is also kind of scummy because it hinges on making the ads look like regular search results.
- Corrado 4y agoI've noticed this mostly on Google properties, YouTube in particular. Most of my YouTube viewing is done on my TV through an Amazon FireTV device, so I see a lot of ads. Now, Google knows me very well and should be able to target me with super effective and compelling advertisements. Yet, I get tons of ads for products that I would never, ever purchase. Things like women's beauty products (not a woman), alcohol (never drink), trucks (not interested). While things that I would be interested in are never seen; science fiction movies, technology news, etc. I really don't see how Google (or any other ad company) are successful at all. I'm guessing they are just spewing ads to everyone on the planet and hoping that some stick. It feels like the "male enhancement" emails have the exact same process and probably work just as well.
- twelve40 4y agohaha my favorite one is retargeting on things i already bought. Like Columbia pants hounding me for weeks on every website after i already bought them.
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