Benno
Zelda 👑*advertiser spends billions a year and spies on me through 30 different apps*
"d-do you want to buy... *looks at my receipt for a GPU purchased yesterday* do you want to buy a GPU?"
Fridge store salesman stops me as I leave the Fridge store carting out my new Fridge
'hey can i interest you in a new fridge"
Brad@sertaptap That reminds me of when I got a phone call from a car dealership I had visited and I told the guy I already bought a car elsewhere. “Well, when do you think you’ll be in the market for another one?”
Big Kumera Energy@bk1e @sertaptap get a job via a recruiter: "we'll check in after six months in case you want a new job by then"
paulmwatson
Fell@bk1e @sertaptap I mean... there are people who religously buy a new (or used) car every two years.
simonbp@fell @bk1e @sertaptap My grandfather used to do that, because cars used to be made of paper thin metal that rusted away if you breathed on it. Boomers who still have this mentality are what keep the US auto industry afloat.
cmdrSprocket@sertaptap Would you like some vacuum cleaner bags for the vacuum cleaner you just returned?
oops banger tweet follow my youtube I'm funny sometimes we're playing jackbox tonight
Abe Massry@sertaptap this 100%
I was looking up rubiks cubes. How about sending me other related things, like yo-yos, or 3d puzzle boxes?
One time I was playing Uno the physical card game and a few days later I saw ads for Uno.
I was like how did they know? A few days after racking my brain I remembered looking up the instructions for how to play
refraction 
@sertaptap clearly you've already shown interest in buying GPUs!
David Nash@sertaptap @ifixcoinops Reminds me of the time a few years back when I bought a telescope and started seeing ads featuring the same exact model. I guess ad networks think all amateur astronomers make really large, unwieldy binoculars out of their telescopes.
@sertaptap @ifixcoinops On a related note: targeted ads are shitty on multiple counts, but one of the most apparent is that the ad networks often aren’t even taking into account actual buying habits. Using amateur astronomers as an example—many of us have more than one telescope, but if we are looking at buying a telescope, we’re not generally contemplating a second telescope immediately afterwards. Their ads would probably be more effective (overall anyway) if they advertised accessories (like eyepieces and star charts and what have you) instead, but they don’t seem to have figured that out.
emmatonkin@dpnash @sertaptap @ifixcoinops
Yeah, pretty much everything I get online seems to end up like this.
Buy a swimming costume? Well then, you must want a dozen swimming costumes.
Buy a handheld game console? Then naturally you must want one for each hand (or is the idea that you swap them out as you run out of battery? I mean, they do mostly have a pretty short battery life, soooo...)
Buy a bunch of cupcakes? Your sentence is death by moodily lit images of buttercream frosting.
Rachael Ava 💁🏻♀️@sertaptap As if I have the money or need to buy more than one GPU via separate purchases as a typical consumer. That doesn't make sense.
Flaming Cheeto@sertaptap worth it to send 100 million messages if you happen to stumble upon musk
Jesus Michał "Le Sigh" 🏔 (he)@sertaptap, how are you going to do AI with just one GPU?
Richard W4\G7EIX@sertaptap I bought a Sonic Toothbrush/WaterPik yesterday online. Today all my feeds are for SonicCare Toothbrushes and WaterPiks.
Time to clear caches and reset advertising ID's again. 🫤.
Adam CafollaAbsolutely.
You would think with all the ridiculous amount of data they gather on us they might at least be able to show us things we might be interested in or need.
The supermarkets manage to give me vouchers for products I buy regularly (ok, their data is probably a cut above the average ad company thanks to loyalty schemes) and Amazon can work out when I might need to reorder something.
Surely it's not that hard to show me things adjacent to recent purchases.
Rob Hooft@sertaptap for me it was after buying a roof full of PV panels…. A year long I only saw ads for more solar energy. That was in Oct 2011. They didn’t learn much in 13 years, did they?
C.S.StrowbridgeI have said this before, but I would pay money for a service that would curate the ads I see. I play video games, but I'm never going to play those scam games that keep popping up.
Warriormaster@sertaptap adblock, content block, disable every single google tracking feature. No ads, no sale. My youtube home page is blank because I disallowed data collection.
@warriormaster I do what I reasonably can but some fishy stuff still defiintely slips through, and obviously if you uby on amazon amazon's (occasionally hilariously bad) algo still tries to get you
@sertaptap fair, I don’t often buy stuff on amazon so it hasn’t bothered me as much.
Radio Azureus@warriormaster @sertaptap you must be very familiar with #ytdlp #NewPipe #Pipepipe and #Tubular I assume
@RadioAzureus @sertaptap I’m aware 👍
Michael@sertaptap Clearly you like spending money on [GPU]. Here are some [GPU] that we think would suit your interests!
You spent money on [GPU] and our aggregate data says if you spend money on [GPU] you want more [GPU] to spend money on.
Waitman GobbleIt's fun to put like a $5,000 item you would never buy in a cart and watch them spend crazy money on g-ads to show up on every web site you visit for weeks and months
BrazMogu (i.e. Bruno Guedes)@sertaptap Youtube, who is owned by Google, constantly serving me ads for games that I already download and play daily while using Google's login
Houston Bova@sertaptap Rich /= smart
Bronwyn Harris@sertaptap a friend bought an urn for her mom’s ashes. She has been getting ads for funerary urns ever since.
erica_sea55@sertaptap f* yeah. I made the mistake of searching for a replacement door for my existing shed yesterday. Turns out there are a LOT of shed companies on the internet. FB is the worst. I get ludicrous ads for things that I have zero interest in, and often actively dislike. Though, to be honest, even though I own three high end computers, I don’t mind ads for new ones, and related tech 😂
Irenes (many)knowledge without insight.
Kit Rhett Aultman@sertaptap Seriously why do they dog me for days after the purchase advertising the product I just purchased? Why?!
Hugo 雨果@sertaptap Doesn't it make you wonder if they're really spying on you "to show better ads"?
Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪@sertaptap Mock them all you want, but we are buying EVERYTHING they sell. As fast as those tiny hands can assemble them, while disassembling the planet.
Pls stop reading and buy, Bezoz wants to buy space.
Pls stop reading and buy, Bezoz wants to buy space.
Definitely someone@sertaptap sometimes i feel like they just want to spy on you and use ads as an excuse
MostlyTato@sertaptap
Advertiser's might actually become more effective when they figure out how time works.
Advertiser's might actually become more effective when they figure out how time works.
GavinHigham@sertaptap @eniko I’ve read they actually do this on purpose because it reduces buyer’s remorse (don’t know how true this is, though)
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@sertaptap
Every time.
Every time.
ducksauz 🦆I want to call that "Taillight Marketing"
Paul Houle@sertaptap that’s the trouble with retargeting; like the time I bought kitty litter at PetSmart for Bob B and punched in my phone number so for the next month I hear the jingle “I’d do anything…” on Tubi in between the ads for Dawn and Tide featuring black people who really dig getting all their clothes and dishes really white when I watch episodes of subprime anime that nobody draws fan art for on Danbooru
justsethallcaps@sertaptap I also need twelve more keyboards because I just bought one
very normal person@sertaptap how could they know?
Pēteris Krišjānis@sertaptap yeeeeep, this. Just shows marketing is very dumb in general. You can have highly detailed data of purchases, they are not capable of making the right decisions, or only thing they are capable of offering the same thing over again.
Andrew Zonenberg@sertaptap A few months after buying my house I got a postcard from a realtor "recently sold in your neighborhood for $XXX".
It was my house.
🇵🇸 Álvaro González@sertaptap Please sell us another used car!
jelte@sertaptap Sometimes I wonder which is the advertisement platforms' bigger crime: the relentless invasion of privacy, or that they convinced advertisers that it actually works.
chocobo13ζ@sertaptap
Well, GPUs Georg bought a thousand of them. I believe he's planning on getting into AI
Well, GPUs Georg bought a thousand of them. I believe he's planning on getting into AI
./nippysaurus@sertaptap I really wish there was a feature where I could tell them ko matter how much they push a product, I’m NEVER going to purchase it. Like Squarespace for example. It’s a great product but too expensive for me, they can save their advertising money.