• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That’s what you’re seeing. Not what I’m seeing. Welcome to the wonderful world of targeted ads.

    I only get Doctor Drew telling me stuff is a metabolism killer.

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      I get douche bros peddling instant meal powder crap. Which I have never, ever, looked for or researched, but my wife’s shopping habits tend to dictate my ads, even though we’re on completely different devices.

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        Yeah, if you’re going through the same router, it’s going to be one IP. My guess is that I get the metabolism stuff because of my spouse.

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          That’s a feature. When you start to get diaper ads it’s time for some news.

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      You guys watch ads on YouTube? When YT gets the better of UblockO for a couple days, I just open the YT homepage, see which of the regular channels I check out have new videos or I look through my recommended and then I open piped or yewtu.be. Fuck YT. I refuse to watch ads. When I open a YT link through lemmy, I’ll close the window immediately if an ad starts playing. Fuck these companies.

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        I have ad blocker at the router level, but I often toggle it off when it interrupts marketing experiences that I need to see for work.

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        I went over a month with zero issues using UBO on YouTube. Coincidentally today for some reason the site started breaking so I updated the quick fixes filter list and that solved it.

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      I mostly get ads for stuff I’ve researched online; anything I buy for the house, kitchen, or simply tools for business, I make sure is “Buy It For Life” quality

      Targeted ads are hilarious. Yes, Google, I did. I did just buy a pair of Knipex Cobra pipe grips. That will be the last time ever I buy them, and they will still be hanging around a secondhand shop 150 years after I’ve turned to fuckin dust. The advert for Shungong Best Grip is a fuckin waste of electrons

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        And I’m super skinny and don’t need to speed up my metabolism. It’s not perfect, but we both sit in a demographic cohort that seems to really buy what they’re pushing to us.

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          I’m always getting those crappy State Farm ads with celebrities like Ludacris, who always look slightly embarrassed to be appearing in the ads

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        And equally that I have had LM for decades and that’s all I see ads for … yeah, real effective targeted advertising.

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      Lol, I get eavestrough filters and fat guy t-shirts. They can tell I’m an old fucker but not that I’m skinny as hell