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Re:The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads by visarga on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:44AM (#21375241)
> The advertisement couldn’t have been more irrelevant if it tried.

That's because there is a mismatch between what advertisers want to sell and what the people want to buy. Your topics of interest don't pay for them, so they shove something else in your pages in the hopes of making a conversion.

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Re:The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads by malux85 on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:46AM (#21375251)
That’s a pretty optimistic hope on that conversion ;) hehe
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Re:The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads by oblio on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:06AM (#21375330)
I'm pretty sure they mean this kind of conversion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_marketing

:)))

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Re:The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads by Mirioron on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:20AM (#21375931)
The problem lies with the people ordering the ads. They're the ones that pick who should see the ad.
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