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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by spike021 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:51PM (#33027016)
Meanwhile I constantly get ads for restaurants and other businesses almost everywhere but the state I live in (California).

I routinely get ads for Boston, NY, Japan, Taiwan, Germany.

I've been to NY and Japan but none of the other places. So I don't think it's using my previous locations.

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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by beckingz on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:58PM (#33027135)
It's really hard to configure FB to target actual locations as opposed to people interested in those locations.

You've been to NY, so you're interested in NY, so FB will make money fleecing restaurants in NY wasting their ad money on you.

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Re:Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restruct... by oceanplexian on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:20PM (#33028090)
If you work somewhere like Facebook, this is totally unsurprising. There are probably thousands of engineers writing yet-another-framework and working on the 100th re-invention of the wheel for some random internal product that users will never see. The engineers actually solving business problems are almost always understaffed and under-appreciated, hence why the product sucks.
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