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Rant: Targeted advertising less than helpful
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Join Date: May 2001
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So you hear all these stories about the effectiveness of targeted advertising and all that. Last weekend, I ordered a bunch of audio equipment for my wife for our anniversary and her birthday. On Amazon. I've received the shipment which they know because they tracked my shipment. And now I'm getting spammed with suggestions of things that I have just bought — from Amazon. Do they think I suddenly need another audio interface and another pair of headphones? Ugh.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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I still get ads for a mixer I bought a year ago.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
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It's awful, especially after you buy the damn thing. You see ads for it for days or weeks.
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but teh internet is smart! How can this be happening?
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This space for Hire! Reasonable rates. Reach an audience of literally dozens!
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Originally Posted by Doc HM
but teh internet is smart! How can this be happening?
Is Google any better at this? (I've consciously opted out of Google as much as I can, so I don't know what you guys see when Google tries to be smart about showing you ads.) In principle they have less information (Amazon knows what I buy there while Google can't — unless you receive your Amazon receipts on your Gmail account.)
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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My experience with Amazon is they don't advertise a product you've just bought. Unless I start browsing the product page again, or if I'm not logged in.
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I get the ads for things similar to what I've bought like OreoCookie, and if I look at something and then leave it, I get an email a while later with 'Items similar to...'
The banners on other websites come up too. A few people in work with kids had close calls when they have done Christmas or birthday shopping and then these banners show up on websites for toys when the kids are online. Eek!
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It'll be much easier if you just comply.
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Originally Posted by ajprice
I get the ads for things similar to what I've bought like OreoCookie, and if I look at something and then leave it, I get an email a while later with 'Items similar to...'
In view of the suggestions they give, I really wonder how much value Amazon can really extract from our shopping history … and you're right. On the other hand there have indeed been cases where data mining have led to pretty awkward moments (e. g. a teen girl was outed as pregnant because she was sent congratulatory coupons …).
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Clinically Insane
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I find internal Amazon recommendations to be pretty decent. Maybe one hit in 50.
What's sucking for me is the gmail scrape of my Amazon purchases.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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I turned off adblocker here for a sec... just to see what the ad is. One is for my own company I work for, one is for weight-loss surgery. I don't recall searching for that... but it knows my local hospital.
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Clinically Insane
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Yeah…I'm getting ads for the music school I work at. Awesome use of advertising dollars.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by andi*pandi
I turned off adblocker here for a sec... just to see what the ad is. One is for my own company I work for, one is for weight-loss surgery. I don't recall searching for that... but it knows my local hospital.
Here, I get an ad for Lysol
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