Recently I keep seeing suggested/ads for things making fun of electric vehicles.
My favorite car I ever owned was a nissan leaf, and right now I have an electric scooter, so not sure what I did to get on list of “people who hate electric vehicles” and why that’s even a list.
I have a running joke with a friend about “what Jeff wants to sell me today”.
(Jeff being Jeff Bezos, i.e. Amazon recommendations.)
Strange things Jeff has wanted to sell me recently:
- falconry equipment
- a gallon of molasses
- a quern-stone
- veterinary surgical adhesives
After playing a bit of Baldur’s Gate 3, I now imagine Jeff Bezos as a deep gnome merchant with an astonishingly random assortment of products …
I constantly get ads about horny milfs in my town but horny milfs are an invasive species where I live and we’re not allowed to have them as pets. I don’t even live in a town. I live in a grand duchy.
So it isn’t a strange item, but the length of time I got targeted ads was absurd.
In 2018 I had to buy a new mattress. I Googled directions to the nearest mattress store and got a mattress. For the next 3 years every single video ad I got anywhere was for mattresses. Do y’all know how many people decided to just start making mattresses… I didn’t think the ads would end…
You don’t buy a mattress every week?
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Wait, how many of you aren’t getting a weekly mattress? Our family gets a new mattress every fortnight TOPS.
3 years seems like an insane amount of time between mattresses.
I’ve been living my life all wrong and I have nobody to blame but myself…
Few years ago I got an “ad” that was just some dudes really bad call of duty black ops 2 sniping montage.
I mean full on some of the most meh trickshots and quickscopes I think I’ve ever seen, against the built in AI opponents that you can enable in custom games, something like 5 or so years after the game was actually relevant to pop culture.
Around 2010 I was going through a traditional Irish music phase. I remember listening to Pandora while eating my lunch and after the song “Finnegans Wake” I got an advertisement for “Funerals starting at $900 in the {where I lived} area”.
I understand why it was suggested, most people listening to The Dubliners are probably 30-40 years older than me. It also made me laugh to imagine some sales guy going to a funeral home and pitching advertising as a way to drum up more business.
Oh my algorithm is FUCKED because I’m so insanely curious.
So first of all I’m always googling stuff from medical procedures to culture and liguistics. That’s part of how I found out that apparently black Americans will sometimes get a nose job to confirm better to western beauty standards.
Second of all, I will click on everything that I can’t identify, which often turn out to be kitchen implements or specialized hobby equipment. One time I clicked on some weird looking shoes, shortly followed by some bizarre looking amorphous plastic things which turned out to be special climbing shoes and screw-in footholds, respectively.
So anyway, that’s the story of how Google adsense thinks I’m an African American woman who hates her nose but is also extremely passionate about indoor climbing (none of this is even remotely true).
I like the way you use the internet.
Back in the day, my shaver broke so I looked online for a new one. Bought one, and afterwards I had ads for nothing but electric shavers. It was so friggin bizarre, like reading some random article and getting 6 ads for shavers. That’s when I finally started using adblock.
I don’t understand the logic of that for long term products! Like maybe do it for 2 weeks after you first search, and then maybe 3 years later.
Like, how can that possibly work?
I was bra shopping and clicked on one that was also a breast pump. Started getting ads for baby stuff for a couple months. I also listen to Spotify at work, there are currently a bunch of Hispanic construction workers working on the building. Since then about a third of my Spotify ads are in Spanish. I don’t speak Spanish.
Xbox gives me Spanish HBO max ads. No other ads are in Spanish and the only thing slightly Spanish on my Xbox is part of one of my friends real name.
I block all possible ads so I haven’t been getting any random ones in ages, but my email provider has an ad for “Moorhuhn” on their page that always slips through the filter somehow so whenever I check my emails I’m asked to shoot virtual chickens.
youtube hit me with an ad for a company that makes those little outlet boxes that go in walls. so of course my ass watched the full video, liked it, left a comment, shared the url, the whole nine yards.
I should check my ad vault to see what ads Adnausem is blocking for me.
I keep seeing adverts for hearing aids, retirement homes and ‘miracle’ cosmetic treatments. WTF Google, I’m not out of my 40s yet!
Every time I talk about food, I get ads for certain restaurants. That is the typical experience of mine. I mentioned “those fancy onion looking houses in Russia” and the next thing I know an ad for blooming onions from Outback Steakhouse appears before a YouTube video. I dare not even speak other languages near some technology because then the language of my ads change. Not only that, but my phone must know when I wake up in the morning because I get phone calls as soon as I wake up, and I’ve had certain websites misgender me because a guy is talking near my technology or is in a photo or because I sound tomboyish or look tomboyish in photos and they were trying to “detect” my gender using the spy stuff. I’m surprised these people who are behind the surveillance still trust their own judgment.
Less juicy than some here.
I keep getting ads about my employer - a B2B / B2E business. Not sure how Facebook thinks I may be a purchaser at a business. I am not.
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