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Re:I stopped advertising and nothing happened by sammalloy on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:25PM (#30950520)
> I knew a guy who would serially impulse buy things off Instagram.

No lie, Insta knows what I want to buy before I know, and it’s very scary. I’m not an impulse buyer by any stretch of the imagination, but their advertising is some of the best I’ve ever seen anywhere on the internet.

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Re:I stopped advertising and nothing happened by Spooky23 on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:05AM (#30953223)
Instagram knows nothing about me, i saw the ads for the Canadian metal top the other day.

They are the modern version of home shopping network. They make a fortune out of lonely people buying random shit.

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Re:I stopped advertising and nothing happened by girvo on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:43PM (#30951203)
That should not be surprising considering who owns them and how much data they have on us.
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