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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by taneq on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:06PM (#16363921)
> I’m served the same handful of annoying ads over and over, for products I’d never consider buying.

Or worse, for big-ticket items that you'd only buy infrequently. HEY THIS GUY BOUGHT A DRONE LETS SEND HIM DRONE ADS! WAIT NO NOW HE BOUGHT A CAR HE'S A CAR BUYER SEND CAR ADS. No, you silly equation, I just bought a car, that means I'm NOT in the market for a car.

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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by mcbits on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:19PM (#16364471)
This strategy may actually work for drones. I know very few people who own a drone and don't also own five drones.
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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by eropple on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:18PM (#16364715)
Can confirm, it works for cameras too. This brought to you by the menagerie of Panasonics now littering my office...
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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by Vendan on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:10AM (#16365521)
or who own a drone and haven't crashed at least one drone
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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by spupy on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:10AM (#16365524)
On some ads (Google?) you can click an X button to select a reason for not wanting to see that ad anymore. If I recall correctly one of the options is that you've already purchased that item. It actually worked in my case, but guess what - the advertiser now has even more info on you!
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Re:Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook and Goog... by JetSpiegel on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @06:22AM (#16366315)
Not only Google slurps all your personal information to better target ads it shows you, you have to do extra work on top of that to keep them relevant. That's rich.
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