Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ...
by eitland on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:40AM
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If they work diligently and at great expense, then maybe they are just missing a signal here? I have an idea for an interesting one:
Maybe if they would look at the feedback they got on the ads (yep, people taking the effort to click on that tiny tiny x in the top right corner of the ad) where people said that the ad were irrelevant or even offensive. Maybe if they started with the assumption that these people knew what they were doing and hadn't managed to hit that specific combination by random chance and especially not three times or more in a row. And maybe if they had removed these users from the group that got said ads then that could be a good starting point for further work.
I'm no machine learning expert by any means but taking into account the current situation there should be some room for improvement.
If anyone missed it: I'm sarcastic. I believe ads targeting are either out of control, or Google as a company aren't as smart as they think they are or they have a really deep disregard for users.
Maybe if they would look at the feedback they got on the ads (yep, people taking the effort to click on that tiny tiny x in the top right corner of the ad) where people said that the ad were irrelevant or even offensive. Maybe if they started with the assumption that these people knew what they were doing and hadn't managed to hit that specific combination by random chance and especially not three times or more in a row. And maybe if they had removed these users from the group that got said ads then that could be a good starting point for further work.
I'm no machine learning expert by any means but taking into account the current situation there should be some room for improvement.
If anyone missed it: I'm sarcastic. I believe ads targeting are either out of control, or Google as a company aren't as smart as they think they are or they have a really deep disregard for users.