Because I've gone to Caribbean dive resorts in the past, I get a lot of ads for Caribbean dive resorts. The problem is, there's one resort in particular that I get spam from nonstop. I'll never go to this resort because the keep dolphins captive, but the algorithm can't figure out that spamming me with an ad for a place I hate is only going to motivate me to recruit others to my view of that resort.
I could be nice and tell the resort to quit wasting their money on counter-productive ads, but they deserve what they don't get.
When I was young, I used to get a lot of targeted ads in Arabic trying to sell me boner pills. I read some weird shit on the internet, I know. But to say I was the opposite of their target demographic is almost an understatement.
About that same time, P&G did a big ad buy for family stuff, mostly baby but also just health stuff in general. I mean big ad buy: everyone got these ads, they were just put all over the internet for everyone period. There were a few products I didn't realize existed, and I bought them.
... Just sayin' to any ad guys here: that's how bad it was 10 years ago, and it's only gotten worse.
Algorithms are pretty dumb sometimes.
Because I've gone to Caribbean dive resorts in the past, I get a lot of ads for Caribbean dive resorts. The problem is, there's one resort in particular that I get spam from nonstop. I'll never go to this resort because the keep dolphins captive, but the algorithm can't figure out that spamming me with an ad for a place I hate is only going to motivate me to recruit others to my view of that resort.
I could be nice and tell the resort to quit wasting their money on counter-productive ads, but they deserve what they don't get.
When I was young, I used to get a lot of targeted ads in Arabic trying to sell me boner pills. I read some weird shit on the internet, I know. But to say I was the opposite of their target demographic is almost an understatement.
About that same time, P&G did a big ad buy for family stuff, mostly baby but also just health stuff in general. I mean big ad buy: everyone got these ads, they were just put all over the internet for everyone period. There were a few products I didn't realize existed, and I bought them.
... Just sayin' to any ad guys here: that's how bad it was 10 years ago, and it's only gotten worse.