ikr like how many goddamn steam mops do they think one house needs
My partner found the wedding bands they wanted to buy. They’re metal bands in the design of para cord as I was in the military at the time and their father is a retired Lieutenant-colonel. The two of them together was like $150 and we got them off Etsy.
For nearly a month after I bought them for us, my phone was giving me ads for wedding rings. Like… Bro, we got them already. We don’t need more.
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carbon fiber bike rims… Nope I’m not stocking up on those thank you…
You may have heard of the “sales funnel,” well, let me introduce you to the “sales loop…”
You would really think the algorithm would be smarter by now.
It’s not made to be smart, just to mooch more money out off your pocket.
I too ask myself why they fuckin offer me another “insert anything I already bought”.
They’re not allowed to see actual purchase data, so all they have is “this person looked at a humidifier and may or may not have bought one”. So they’re plastering you with humidifier ads in case you still haven’t pulled the trigger, or in case you did buy one but returned it.
I know. So the reason we are seeing this is not that the algorithm is shit, it’s because there’s laws in place to protect us.
Meaning if we stop seeing this, then we should be worried! 😄😄😵💫
I don’t see this and I’m not worried.
…because I know the reason is that I’m not seeing ads at all because I’m blocking them.
Yup, I just bought a tank jet printer, so clearly I’m turning my apartment into the world’s most inefficient print shop.
tank jet printer
Anyone who thinks this is a typo is a communist!
Heh. *The printers with refillable ink tanks.
The Tankies They Don’t Want You To Know About
I’ve been recently rewatching all the X-men movies in order on Disney+.
After each one it’s like “why not watch the first one again?” like it doesn’t know full well I watched it a few days ago.
All this data collection, and for what?
So they can charge advertisers/companies money for “relevant” ads. I assume there’s pushback in the market on this but even so, that’s wasted ad space/time (since they seem to think it’s so important to advertise that route. Maybe it’s not even such a bad idea since so many products are shit and you may well be in the market soon anyway.
Selling ads to people wanting to make money is like selling picks and shovels to people heading to the gold rush. Those selling shovels don’t even really care if their buyer finds gold (despite any apparent enthusiasm), they don’t even care if they’ll even need or want the shovel after figuring out most gold in this rush is found panhandling rather than by digging or that the amount of digging you’d have to do to find a decent amount of gold is more than what a shovel can handle (actually they might use that to sell you a shovel subscription).
They only care that your desire for money has brought you to them, where you can make them money whether you do or not.
I mean, with the rampant enshittification of consumer technologies, there’s every chance the thing you just bought off Amazon will break after a much shorter lifespan then expected. There’s even a chance this was planned and accounted for…
Do you think people would do that? Just plan to make stuff obsolete?
Who can say? I’ve certainly never experienced such a thing… 🤷
Show me ads for cocaine and I will click it, brother. I was told capitalism solved all my problems by providing the material possessions I wanted in exchange for currency.
What happened with that.
End arc of consumerism.
I bought a new mattress last year and I swear not even a month later they were emailing me with mattress ads. Time to start my mattress collection.
Came here to post this, love this video!
I’m also amusedly infuriated when “smart” advertising takes the exact wrong pattern ……
“ I see you recently bought a part for a Toyota. You must have a Toyota. Let me sell you the same part for a Volkswagen. “
A very annoying feature of that company. Always trying to sell you what you just bought, sometimes at a lower price its like theyre saying HA HA you got screwed
