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Re:Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while lo... by tyingq on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:19PM (#21667868)
It seems logical that the chance of you buying their chicken is much lower than someone actually in the US. Why should they pay?
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Re:Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while lo... by muratsu on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:30PM (#21667910)
My guess would be that you're making the assumption that I'm looking to buy chicken. It might be the case that someone is just researching "US chicken market"?
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Re:Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while lo... by baddox on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:12PM (#21668081)
And why would most chicken ad publishers want to show ads to those people? I imagine most of those publishers are selling chicken, not information about the US chicken market.
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