Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking

Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by axaxs on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:31PM (#27849044)

Do people really prefer relevant ads? I just disregard them, and it doesn't matter to me whether they are relevant or off the wall.

The only ads I specifically don't like are the ones Youtube have randomly showed my wife and I. It's only happened twice to each of us, but they were a bit adult themed. Having a child in the house, I was pretty peeved.

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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by kstrauser on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:46PM (#27849223)

I vastly prefer irrelevant ones. If I browse e-book readers because my coworkers were talking about them and I was curious about the current state of the art, I don't want ads to pester me into buying something I don't need. On the other hand, no amount of ads will manipulate me into buying diapers or a timeshare.

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Re:Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers a... by herbst on Friday July 16, 2021 @05:03AM (#27854341)

My favourite (in terms of how can this even happen) was an 43 minute ad of someone reading the Koran between 2 maybe 10 minute videos.

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