Comment on What even is money at this point

• titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or it could be recency bias. He was there he saw something he then saw an ad pop up and subconsciously linked his visit there to visit there. At best Amazon or any other advertiser tracking your phone could only see the general area they’re at they don’t know that he’s by a cabinet and they definitely don’t know and they definitely aren’t accessing surveillance systems to provide personalized ads.

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thats likely too. I will say, as someone who works in telcom, the whole Geofenced ads and cpupons idea was something being pitched like, 10+ years ago. I don’t know if it ever panned out, but it was pushed. The other part was getting say, your Lowes app to ping you with a 5% off coupon for that thing you have been standing in front of pondering for ten minutes.

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