Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'
by davchana on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:36AM
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Most of the the the ads I see by Google or Facebook are the ones for purchases I already made. Few weeks ago I already booked a hotel on booking.com, and then searched about that hotel's official website and facebook page, and boy, for two weeks every google ad and facebook ad had that hotel name.
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Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'
by dhimes on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:52AM
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LOL exactly. It's ridiculous. I accidentally cost my buddy a click when his ad appeared on my feed (his ad has no business being on my feed)- I was on mobile so of course accidentally clicked it.
The ad industry is just so damn broken that it's ripe for a huge disruption. The whole hypothesis of Google- that people will want to see ads centered on what they are searching for- seems to be erroneous. But it's been taken as gospel for what- a dozen years?- that everybody has piled on to the idea that we can know what people want to buy based on the type of information they seek. I think that except in explicit cases- searching for 'umbrellas that can withstand high winds' for instance- it's not true.
As I've said before here, when I'm ready to buy I'm searching Amazon, not Google.