Gibt es 1 einzige Person auf der Welt, die sich über „gezielte Werbung“ freut, ah cool, dieses Zeug brauche ich gar nicht und will eigentlich den Online-Artikel über Doro Bär lesen, aber jetzt, wo ich im Artikel dieses Fußpilz-Video angezeigt bekomme, will ich unbedingt diesen Fußpilznagellack haben, schließlich war ich gestern im Schwimmbad??? #Werbetracking #TargetedAdvertising #Datensammelscheiß

Poorly Targeted Advertising

If you have a website, you've probably seen link swap spam. People running link farms search for a keyword or phrase, then fire off a zillion emails to the contact addresses about how they've looked at the site, their site is clearly relevant to yours, they've already linked to you and they want you to link back to their site. All this without bothering to actually look at the sites in the search results. For example: last Saturday I posted picture of the marquee in front of San Diego's Ghirardelli Chocolate shop. By Monday someone had asked me to link to their website about chocolate, because our sites were clearly related. Today I got one that trips the irony-meter. I've made four posts over the past year about targeted---or mistargeted---advertising. Just four. This morning I received three copies (one to my webmaster address and one to each DNS contact) of this message: Hello, I have found your website hyperborea.org by searching Google for "targeted advertising". I think our websites has a similar theme, so I have already added your link to my website. […]

https://journal.kvibber.com/2005/07/poorly-targeted-advertising/

Instagram Targets

I remember a brief period shortly after Instagram introduced in-feed advertisements when I was getting mostly travel ads that consisted of well-composed scenic landscape, cityscapes and nature photos. Which was fine! Of course it didn't last.

https://journal.kvibber.com/2026/05/instagram-targets/

#BigTech Is Stalking Your #Healthcare Data #privacy #TargetedAdvertising

MinnPost: Minnesota House passes social media protections for minors, drawing opposition from tech industry group. “Some of the safety features in the bill include requiring parental consent for children signing up for social media accounts; setting privacy settings to the strongest levels by default; prohibiting targeted ads; and limiting addictive features such as infinite scrolling and video […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/18/minnpost-minnesota-house-passes-social-media-protections-for-minors-drawing-opposition-from-tech-industry-group/

Courthouse News Service: Meta can’t duck majority of Android advertising tracking claims. “A federal judge ruled Monday that Meta must face claims brought by Android users who say the tech giant exploited vulnerabilities in Android smartphones to match users’ browsing activity to their Meta social media accounts in an attempt to create more detailed advertising profiles.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/courthouse-news-service-meta-cant-duck-majority-of-android-advertising-tracking-claims/

La Fin de la Précision : Analyse Stratégique

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ICYMI: LLM visibility tools, agentic buying, and the slow death of precision targeting: ExchangeWire's MadTech podcast, published April 3, 2026, breaks down LLM visibility tool credibility, agent-to-agent buying timelines, and the end of hyper-targeted advertising. https://ppc.land/llm-visibility-tools-agentic-buying-and-the-slow-death-of-precision-targeting/ #LLM #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #Podcast #TargetedAdvertising