TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make money off your data

Re:TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make... by izacus on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:10PM (#43510890)

Let me show you in practical terms - I've searched for some neat cases for a Pixel 9 Pro (for a family member). I'm now receiving targeted ads for phone cases on Instagram on my Galaxy S25.

- Ads I'd like: More cute cases for either P9Pro or a Galaxy S25 I'm watching the ads on.

- Ads the company is pushing: iPhone-only cases which I can't use anywhere.

Quite staggering the incompetence of targeting those :)

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Re:TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make... by recursive on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:27PM (#43510992)

Sounds like the targeting is just not specific enough yet.

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Re:TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make... by izacus on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:40PM (#43511601)

I'd hope "show cases for android phones on an android phone" to be something rockstar engineers at ad companies figure out rather easily.

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Re:TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make... by hakfoo on Sunday March 30, 2025 @12:57AM (#43521467)

Or the ad content isn't being made specific enough. I know that at least for the cheap Aliexpress tier stuff, they'll make the same basic design for 12 different phones, so theoretically the same product listing might include iPhone and various Android variants, but the description might fail to reveal that.

I'm sort of surprised that the industry isn't 70% print-on-demand these days-- just say "we have a nice sturdy case design for the top 500 phone models, and upload your own art".

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