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Comment by duxup

3 days ago

I feel like advertising relies on getting it right "enough" not for everyone and ... they don't care.

Auth and settings people will tell you when it is wrong and that is generally thought of as a problem. Yet advertising doesn't care.

For years Amazon kept showing me women's products. I never once bought any or looked them up but man they were sure I wanted to buy some.

Google thought I was a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan but really I'm a fan of a rival, that's why I had to google a few things about them, but my old google news feed was sure I was a fan... even when they gave me a chance to say "no news about this team" they kept doing it ...