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1. Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 00:29:21 JST Nudhul
   has anyone ever become interested in a product because of an ad stuck in a video or on a web page?
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 00:29:46 JST Machismo

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     @Nudhul No, The only ads I ever got, back when I still looked at ads, were for things I'd already decided not to buy.
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 00:31:03 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Nudhul Exceedingly rarely. Practically doesn't happen. If anything at this point I'll avoid the product
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 00:37:11 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • cool_boy_mew
     @Nudhul And the vast majority of ads I get are either your usual pepsico bullshit that you're already "buying" anyways and are your only choices at fast food joints or stuff I am not buying. I own no house and I don't want a car, yet I get homeowner levels of products/renovations products/etc and car ads anyways
     
     Complete waste. For all the data they steal, they don't use any of it. You barely get local ads, said local ads are not even tuned to your interests and then you get the big ads you get everywhere else. Why is big data even a thing already?
     
     Like, the advertisement ideal:
     - Local businesses (Exceedingly rarely. You had to basically block all the big corps on Facebook to even get to that point BTW)
     - Things actually catered to your interests
     - Get told about thing, but like once or twice. A handful of times. Not 30+ times
     
     What actually happens:
     - Pepsico and co, the big money ads you've seen for fucking ever
     - Cryptoscams and such instead of local businesses (when NFT was big a few years ago)
     - Things that are not actually catered to your interests and that you don't even care about
     - See these garbage ad nauseum, ultimately making you pretty angry