Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by gruturo on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:13AM
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Amazon knows I just bought a fridge. How many fridges per month do they think I need? I keep receiving fridge ads and even on their own website, when logged in, they show me fridge offers.
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Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by crtasm on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:14AM
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Perhaps the intention is for the purchase to stay fresh in your mind so you're more likely to mention it to other people?
The ads drove you to post here and as a result, I'm reminded amazon is an option for white goods.
Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by MiddleEndian on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:32PM
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Taken to an entertaining extreme, one advertising approach would be to make ads as noticeably terrible as possible so people complain about them as much as possible.
Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by tripzilch on Thursday June 07, 2018 @12:47PM
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It's almost as if, no matter what these advertising networks do, you can always reason in hindsight that it profited someone ...
It's almost as if, because it's rumoured to have powerful, dark & unknowable Machine Learning behind it, people assume it must be doing something reaaaaaally clever, and we're just not clever enough to realise what it's truly masterminding.
Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:23AM
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You're right in the specific case of Amazon and that product type: their advertising should definitely be more intelligent in that case.