@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

@sertaptap clearly you've already shown interest in buying GPUs!

@sertaptap actually the number of trackers of your online behavior is likely in the thousands or even tens of thousands

@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 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.

@sertaptap worth it to send 100 million messages if you happen to stumble upon musk

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@sertaptap, how are you going to do AI with just one GPU?

@sertaptap Couple of years ago I looked up 4 or 5 rooms to stay in on booking.com, then booked my favourite. For weeks they followed me round the internet, advertising all the hotels I didn't book, on the same nights I'd just booked somewhere else

@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. 🫤.

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Absolutely.

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.

@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?

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I 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.

@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.

@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.

@sertaptap Shit like this is why browsers should block third-party cookies and third-party JavaScript by default.

(Of course, Chrome will never do that because Google is an advertising company first and foremost, which you probably already know.)

@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

@sertaptap Rich /= smart

@sertaptap @robotistry I don’t know how anyone could deal with all those ads. I literally can’t remember the last time I saw an ad. You guys need better content blockers.

@sertaptap a friend bought an urn for her mom’s ashes. She has been getting ads for funerary urns ever since.