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The Door Frame posted:Facebook keeps showing me gay Israeli resorts, stuff written in Portuguese talking about Brasil, and is trying to get me to repatriate to London. I'm a straight white man who has never left America and can't read any other languages besides English. Ad robots aren't as accurate as people would have you believe Yeah....that's my fault. You never log out of Google so I use your account. Those are all for me.
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Facebook became briefly obsessed with showing me ads for a daycare center in Sweden. Never been there. No kids. Never talked about Sweden or daycare or kids on Facebook. It was beautiful in its absurdity. edit: the ads were in Swedish. I had to use Google Translate to figure out why all these pictures of laughing blonde children kept appearing. walrusman has a new favorite as of 03:45 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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facebook keeps saying I have 99 notifications when i dont have any friends or anything on it.
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Tired Moritz posted:facebook keeps saying I have 99 notifications when i dont have any friends or anything on it. Least you know a bitch ain't one.
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Ebay keeps sending me specials about baby care products. I'm a single 25 year old man with no children who has never bought baby care stuff in my life. Sic Semper Goon has a new favorite as of 05:26 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Screaming Idiot posted:Least you know a bitch ain't one. Nice
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dirksteadfast posted:This might not actually be a dumb move in marketing since it's possible that it hits more than it misses for all I know, but my wife's Pandora radio has decided all of her ads need to be in Spanish now. We technically do live near a significant Mexican population, so maybe it's trying its best to read nearby demographics, but mine hasn't been hit like that. I put Shakira on one time and this started happening to me. Don't judge. Three years later I managed to wash it out with plenty of Led Zeppelin, Rob Zombie and Ace of Base. Maybe that's not even how it works. Yes, I know my taste in music sucks.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Though now that I think about it what is probably the stupidest thing is that like half of the music I listen to is in German. Which isn't Spanish. Which genre of music would that be? I thought German bands often sang in English.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Yeah....that's my fault. You never log out of Google so I use your account. Those are all for me. You should contact HBO for an indie movie based on your life. A Brazilian Jew from London living in Boystown and cruising for men sounds like a side character from Girls that would get a 2 episode feature
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Phlegmish posted:Which genre of music would that be? I thought German bands often sang in English. Rammstein. Alternatively, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYcviXK4rg
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Looks like somebody's never heard of Einstürzende Neubauten 
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Stick Insect posted:I rather like the idea behind http://adnauseam.io although I have no idea if it's effective.
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Oh my god I love this so much, they're having so much fun 
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Easy, charge $0.15 per can. (and maybe reduce the sugar)
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The Door Frame posted:Thank God I have McAfee Active Protection software that came pre-installed on my computer I think it's a pretty dumb move in marketing to keep the product/company named McAfee when John McAfee has lost his goddamn mind. Is he still wanted and hanging out in South America? I read some interview or something with him I think on Ars Technica and he was completely unhinged, he kept talking about this drug that he uses as an aphrodisiac and stuff like that.
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Oh buttsalts McAfee who hid from police looking for him for his neighbour's murder by digging a hole in the beach, climbing in, and put a cardboard box on his head.
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This is actually more likely to do the trick than anything submitted to that contest would.
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Stick Insect posted:I rather like the idea behind http://adnauseam.io although I have no idea if it's effective. I cannot imagine this is even slightly useful, at all. The only thing it really is is a kind of click fraud / botting, and it'll earn whichever sites you visit increased revenue from your obscenely large adclick ratio. Hell, it might be straight up harmful if ad networks detect it as fraud, and punish the site you're visiting for setting up a bot clicker. ( Which is against the Terms of Agreement of any advertiser. ) I genuinely can't see this as helpful to the person using it in the slightest, just edit your hosts file or something to redirect a lot of ad traffic and trackers. This thing just seems actively malicious, and I cannot believe for a single second that the people making it haven't realized that it's pretty much just another tool to attack sites. Sure, a site displaying ads can be pretty lovely, but throwing false impressions their way and possibly getting the site's advertising network to blacklist them for fraud is way worse.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Oh buttsalts McAfee who hid from police looking for him for his neighbour's murder by digging a hole in the beach, climbing in, and put a cardboard box on his head. It worked, didn't it?
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SubNat posted:I cannot imagine this is even slightly useful, at all. The only thing it really is is a kind of click fraud / botting, and it'll earn whichever sites you visit increased revenue from your obscenely large adclick ratio. use it anyway, let the internet burn
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Yeah don't use it on sites where you need to log in, apparently someone got banned from his youtube account because google marked them as a bot. I love watching this adblocking arms race unfold, I hope that eventually someone will come up with ads that are not poo poo. Or at least less poo poo than they are now.
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I don't understand what's wrong with just a static picture that says "hey this is our product click to know more" using a nice quiet text? No they gotta get huge and musical and loud.
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Because people advertising sketchy things need idiots to click on them, and idiots respond to huge and musical and loud.
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And the only thing that idiots do well is enable other idiots.
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Ryoshi posted:I think it's a pretty dumb move in marketing to keep the product/company named McAfee when John McAfee has lost his goddamn mind. Is he still wanted and hanging out in South America? I read some interview or something with him I think on Ars Technica and he was completely unhinged, he kept talking about this drug that he uses as an aphrodisiac and stuff like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg
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Stick Insect posted:Yeah don't use it on sites where you need to log in, apparently someone got banned from his youtube account because google marked them as a bot. Non awful adverts have existed forever. The issue is that there's always That one sociopathic marketing person, company executive, or scammer (these are not mutually exclusive) that doesn't care if you're annoyed. They demand your attention and will stop at nothing to get it. Same goes for malware, really; they just don't care who they're hurting so you need to defend against it. It isn't going away, ever.
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I use a VPN service that hops exit servers every few hours. I get the strangest targeted ads because most people on these shared ips are looking at the grossest stuff imaginable.
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That's my excuse, too.
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Ryoshi posted:I think it's a pretty dumb move in marketing to keep the product/company named McAfee when John McAfee has lost his goddamn mind. Is he still wanted and hanging out in South America? I read some interview or something with him I think on Ars Technica and he was completely unhinged, he kept talking about this drug that he uses as an aphrodisiac and stuff like that. He fled to the US Regrettable has a new favorite as of 03:26 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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I'm not entirely sure how ad targeting works, but the internet is convinced I'm a business. Instead of the usual dick pill spam, I get ads for business-class VOIP phone systems, chartering private jets and business loans. I've never run a business, but it's certainly amusing.
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Good lord, wait til you do. Within days of registering an LLC - which is a painless process with very low barriers to entry - I was up to my tits in office supply catalogs, warehousing supply catalogs, promotional material catalogs (and free samples,  ), credit card and loan offers, business internet fliers, and god knows what else. Companies probably spent more money than I billed in the first six months, just to send me catalogs. It's tapered off a little after the first year, but I still check the mail sometimes to find a big awkward envelope full of sample lanyards and pens. Oh and Comcast sends me 2-3 things a week, but they're just postcards so they're easy to ignore.
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Stick Insect posted:I love watching this adblocking arms race unfold, I hope that eventually someone will come up with ads that are not poo poo. Or at least less poo poo than they are now.
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walrusman posted:Good lord, wait til you do. Within days of registering an LLC - which is a painless process with very low barriers to entry - I was up to my tits in office supply catalogs, warehousing supply catalogs, promotional material catalogs (and free samples, We founded our (very small) business back in '07 and I still get daily calls offering us business loans. As far as mailings, Comcast is the most relentless, sending multiple letters per week about their business-tier Internet packages. I RTSed them for a while, but they just kept coming, so I started using them for scratch paper 
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Nuevo posted:I'm not entirely sure how ad targeting works, but the internet is convinced I'm a business. The spam I get is convinced I'm an orthopedic surgeon. I get tons of links to paid surveys about different types of medical equipment and other junk I really know nothing about. I always wonder if I started doing them where the money would go.
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walrusman posted:Good lord, wait til you do. Within days of registering an LLC - which is a painless process with very low barriers to entry - I was up to my tits in office supply catalogs, warehousing supply catalogs, promotional material catalogs (and free samples, Are you Dildomancer?
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My Hulu ads are 100% about women's birth control, women's mobile apps, and ads for women's bras and underwear "bae will like". I'm a guy. 
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I got from his channel that he is a libertarian, and that he gets regularly interviewed by Russia Today, even in Larry King's show there. Why? I mean, I know that libertarianism, like the far left, attracts the craziest fuckers, but they could invite someone who isn't certifiably insane (like Dr. Michael Schermer or people from CATO). I honestly believe that RT usually interviews crazy Americans just to mock America.
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