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Comment by crooked-v

My experience with targeted ads pretty much comes down to this classic tweet: https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/724817086309142529

> Amazon is a $250 billion dollar company that reacts to you buying a vacuum by going THIS GUY LOVES BUYING VACUUMS HERE ARE SOME MORE VACUUMS

For a personal example, some months back I bought a pair of identical first aid kits (one for home, one for car), and Amazon still thinks that endlessly recommending me tourniquets, splints, medical scissors, and tactical trauma kits is somehow going to result in more sales.

parent crooked-v 6 years ago

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