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Marcade posted:I don't know if it counts as a dumb marketing move but it's certainly misplaced advertising; I keep getting ads on Youtube for various beers and hard liquors. I don't drink and I don't know why the algorithm has decided that's all I could possibly be interested in but it's a waste of time to target me. I've been getting a LOT of ads about babies. Not even specific about the baby's age, I'm getting ads for pre-natal vitamins, pregnancy tests, diapers for everything from tiny babies to toddlers, what I think is baby skin care creams (they're showing a whole lot of parents rubbing things on bare baby butts, which is VERY weird when you're not in their demographic)... I'm a perpetually single late 20s trans woman. So thanks for the vote of confidence, I guess, but I feel like these ad spots could be better spent. I miss the Tinder ads, they were off the mark too, but at least they felt like they were advertising to my actual problems. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 06:20 on Sep 12, 2020 |
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Cleretic posted:I've been getting a LOT of ads about babies. Not even specific about the baby's age, I'm getting ads for pre-natal vitamins, pregnancy tests, diapers for everything from tiny babies to toddlers, what I think is baby skin care creams (they're showing a whole lot of parents rubbing things on bare baby butts, which is VERY weird when you're not in their demographic)... It's one of the many arguments I see for algorithms being way dumber than journalism tends to give them credit for. Facebook thought I lived in India for the longest time.
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Cleretic posted:I've been getting a LOT of ads about babies. Not even specific about the baby's age, I'm getting ads for pre-natal vitamins, pregnancy tests, diapers for everything from tiny babies to toddlers, what I think is baby skin care creams (they're showing a whole lot of parents rubbing things on bare baby butts, which is VERY weird when you're not in their demographic)... It was a sad time for me when my email spam changed from "Hot babes in your area want to gently caress!" to "We've got pills that will make your dick work again." Especially annoying as it's one of the few parts of my body that is working properly. Offer me something to cure chronic fatigue or sciatica and I might be interested.
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I get a lot of weight loss adverts. I am plus size and currently in therapy for an eating disorder for the first time. I have tried to find other similar IG accounts to follow for supportWITCHCRAFT posted:Just taking this moment to say "A WITCH IRL" might be a cool username 
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Sep 12, 2020 10:46
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I am, indeed, a bus on the move. If I go too slow I explode.
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teen witch posted:I get a lot of weight loss adverts. I am plus size and currently in therapy for an eating disorder for the first time. I have tried to find other similar IG accounts to follow for support I keep getting the ad equivalent of those forklift driver shirts. Are you a FOURTY SOMETHING in SPAIN with 5 TO 35 VEHICLES? You NEED to visit this site!
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Sep 12, 2020 11:31
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Sunswipe posted:It was a sad time for me when my email spam changed from "Hot babes in your area want to gently caress!" to "We've got pills that will make your dick work again." Especially annoying as it's one of the few parts of my body that is working properly. Offer me something to cure chronic fatigue or sciatica and I might be interested. I'm a cis woman and I used to get so many of the dick pill spams. Nowadays it's all property buying which is hilarious because I'm also poor as gently caress. e: Username-wise, I plan to claim I'm named after Grace Hopper if anyone asks but this username actually originates in the Kevin Spacey character from A Bugs Life which has gone from 'loving goofy' to 'dark secret' due to him being a disgusting monster.
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Sep 12, 2020 11:32
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I get a lot of these, I'm pretty sure I posted a different example earlier I DO like beautiful women, it's eerie how they know that about me, truly we are living in 1984
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Sep 12, 2020 13:51
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HopperUK posted:I'm a cis woman and I used to get so many of the dick pill spams. Same here! I was always kind of touched that they were so concerned that any penis I might potentially acquire at some point would be fighting fit 
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Sep 12, 2020 15:31
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I always assumed those were scams and you wouldn't actually get pills that made your dick bigger and stronger Is that not the case, asking for a friend
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Sep 12, 2020 15:51
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Sep 12, 2020 16:08
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Phlegmish posted:I always assumed those were scams and you wouldn't actually get pills that made your dick bigger and stronger I assume that any function dick sizing pills are just steroids or something in the same way.
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Sep 12, 2020 16:23
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I have no idea why FB thinks I'm in South Asia when I've been in NY/NJ for the last 30 years, but sure, give me all of the latest Bollywood news. Also, I'm posting from 20k feet, everything looks cle- ARE THOSE loving KLINGONS?!
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Was it here that we were posting about 23andme earlier? I got my results back yesterday. Nothing too surprising, ancestry associations are mainly French & German/British & Irish/Broadly Northwestern European. The relative finder is only suggesting xth cousins (hundreds and hundreds of them in the US) that participated, nothing close. I am more Neanderthal than 70% of participants, still less than 2%, don't know if it's enough to claim minority status. Overall, not earth-shattering for me personally, but still interesting. They give you a ton of reports. Recommended if you're the slightest bit interested in genetics, have the money, and aren't put off by the privacy concerns that were brought up earlier in the thread. On that note, be aware that the Health section of the test is unavailable in many European countries, presumably due to said privacy concerns. I realize that evil scientists will use my data to create an army of
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tribbledirigible posted:I have no idea why FB thinks I'm in South Asia when I've been in NY/NJ for the last 30 years, but sure, give me all of the latest Bollywood news. Do you use a VPN? I don't but that doesn't stop The Algorithm from deciding I MUST be Mexican-American and feeding me Spanish Language adds every couple months.
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Sep 12, 2020 17:26
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I get a lot of French, but that kind of makes sense since I live barely 15 km from the linguistic border. I assume they can't get too granular and are hedging their bets
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Sep 12, 2020 17:29
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Phlegmish posted:Was it here that we were posting about 23andme earlier? I got my results back yesterday. Genealogy thread if you're interested.
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Bobby Digital posted:I am RZA ama. What the hell was with that O’ren rap on the Kill Bill soundtrack?
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Genealogy thread if you're interested. Thank you! I had no idea that thread existed. Crossposting it there.
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Phlegmish posted:I am more Neanderthal than 70% of participants, still less than 2%, don't know if it's enough to claim minority status. Wait, what?
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madeintaipei posted:Wait, what? The 'minority status' bit is a joke. The Neanderthal bit is due to how most white people are part Neanderthal.
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madeintaipei posted:Wait, what? The test checks your DNA to see how many genetic variants you have that are specifically associated with Neanderthals. Nearly all modern humans have trace amounts of Neanderthal ancestry, with the exception of (ethnic) Sub-Saharan Africans (generally). The latter is because Neanderthals started diverging after they left Africa, and that's also where the mixing occurred. This is my layman's understanding of the Neanderthal thing, any genetics pros here are free to correct me HopperUK posted:The 'minority status' bit is a joke. The Neanderthal bit is due to how most white people are part Neanderthal. It's broader than just Europeans, but I do assume they have the highest percentage. I really need to read up on it more before I make definitive statements. It's pretty interesting how specifically Neanderthal DNA has practically disappeared, but not quite entirely. Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 17:49 on Sep 12, 2020 |
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Sep 12, 2020 17:46
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I had a job where I had to do lots and lots of research via google for products and was assigned condoms and dog food at the same time and my ads became wild
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Phlegmish posted:The test checks your DNA to see how many genetic variants you have that are specifically associated with Neanderthals. This just reminded me of the weirdness that is the Palmaris_longus_muscle- a largely useless feature that is just plain missing in about 14% of the global population.Most people have it is both arms, some have it in just one, and a minority have it in neither. I'd don't have it at all, which is mildly disappointing because it's apparently very useful if you ever need to replace a tendon somewhere else in your body. It's also theoretically 'handy' if you want to climb a lot of trees.
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Sep 12, 2020 18:01
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HopperUK posted:The 'minority status' bit is a joke. The Neanderthal bit is due to how most white people are part Neanderthal. I didn't get it and spent a few minutes searching around to see if they hadn't un-extincted themselves. 2020 is wild.
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madeintaipei posted:I didn't get it and spent a few minutes searching around to see if they hadn't un-extincted themselves. 2020 is wild. Neanderthals and homo sapiens were technically still just two varieties of the same species (they could have fertile offspring, though presumably with an increased rate of fertility issues) when they encountered each other, so some interbreeding occurred. I found this on 23andme, I think it explains it well in layman's terms:  The current consensus appears to be that the percentage of Neanderthal ancestry used to be higher still, but that it gradually decreased across many generations until only some of the neutral-to-positive mutations were left.
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madeintaipei posted:I didn't get it and spent a few minutes searching around to see if they hadn't un-extincted themselves. 2020 is wild. Somewhat related, but a few years ago in the U.K. they did genetic testing of the local population around the Cheddar Gorge to see if anyone was related to "Cheddar man" the remains of a man from about 10,000 years ago who'd lived in the area, and they loving found a direct descendant: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-family-link-that-reaches-back-300-generations-to-a-cheddar-cave-1271542.html
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I used to get a lot of Muslim dating services, which is weird because I'm the whitest guy possible living in what's probably one of the whitest areas in the world excluding like the most the northern parts of Scandinavia. Not that I minded because at least they were very SFW, as opposed to all the 'sexy' games ads I get now. Guess they finally put 2 and 2 together and figured out I'm a white single guy in my 30s that watches a lot of gaming videos.
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Sep 12, 2020 18:23
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I don't think I've really paid attention to what crap gets targeted at me whenever I am unfortunate enough to be browsing without adblock. My eyes just scan past them. They're invisible. Digital garbage. A waste of bits, bytes, and data.
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Barudak posted:I had a job where I had to do lots and lots of research via google for products and was assigned condoms and dog food at the same time and my ads became wild That sounds ruff.
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Sep 12, 2020 18:32
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Captain Hygiene posted:poo poo I never realized usernames had to be true Oh poo poo, we weren't supposed to make contact yet.
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Sep 12, 2020 18:33
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It kinda sucks that when you browse without adblock the internet suddenly becomes a series of small boxes with the content in them with ads flanking 75% of these boxes on every website. It'd be nice if something were done about that but I guess it's too late.
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Back in the day you had to constantly fight off intrusive ads on dodgy pirate streaming sits, but now that's literally normal, as well as the video you have to manually stop. The whole 'pivot to video' thing still turned out to be bullshit that no one actually wanted, right?
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Sep 12, 2020 18:48
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Back in the day you had to constantly fight off intrusive ads on dodgy pirate streaming sits, but now that's literally normal, as well as the video you have to manually stop. The video thing is absolutely evil - if I try to browse any threads on here on my phone, and if they are ones with direct links to videos I just have to skip them because they will 100% crash my phone. The default in every mobile browser I've tried is to preload and run any embedded videos on a loop. It appears to be unstoppable. The default behaviour in desktop chrome is loop=on and controls=off. It's set up to be as bad as it could possibly be.
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Pookah posted:The video thing is absolutely evil - if I try to browse any threads on here on my phone, and if they are ones with direct links to videos I just have to skip them because they will 100% crash my phone. The default in every mobile browser I've tried is to preload and run any embedded videos on a loop. It appears to be unstoppable. The default behaviour in desktop chrome is loop=on and controls=off. It's set up to be as bad as it could possibly be. Get the Awful app and change your life.
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Beachcomber posted:Get the Awful app and change your life. I will hug you so drat angrily if this doesn't work,
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You don't have the Awful app on your phone? Get it ASAP. I don't even know which goon developed it, but we should be erecting statues in their honor. They've done more to keep this place alive than Richard 'Toesnax' Kyanka. - posted from my Motorola Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 19:55 on Sep 12, 2020 |
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Sep 12, 2020 19:44
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Back in the day you had to constantly fight off intrusive ads on dodgy pirate streaming sits, but now that's literally normal, as well as the video you have to manually stop. It may be apocryphal, but IIRC it all started with Facebook wanting to push some new video functionality of theirs, so they falsified their metrics to say that people were way more likely to click on videos than they actually were. That then caused a ripple effect making all sorts of advertisers and news organizations switch to short videos as their main way to deliver content.
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