Google regularly thinks I’m a robot and the ads are not even remotely relevant. Sorry but there’s no way their tracking is working.
Which is why I hate it so much - why base your marketing on tracking data when the data is often completely wrong?
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SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I dabble in marketing for my company. Let me just say advertisers don’t need a damn cookie to know who you are to serve you ads. Even across multiple devices. There are so many methods… literally over a dozen when cross referenced tells companies exactly who you are, even on vpn, even incognito.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 4 months ago
SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Google is not the ads industry. Google is a small part of it. I know ad sellers that partner with Google and 60 other data brokers to know when you’re taking a shit.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Which is why cookies, server-dependent adaptive design and many other things in the Web were big mistakes.
Gemini. Closing FF now.
SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cookies don’t even matter for advertising anymore. They don’t need them. You leave breadcrumbs everywhere. Literally where you are, your wifi connection, browser used, browser build, device used, screen size, Google account logged into a browser, just to name a few. They string all this stuff together over days, weeks, years… you’ll slip up at some point no matter how diligent you are with something big, like that Google account login, a share from social media… there’s so much more lol
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Well, if you clean all cookies, there’ll be much fewer things targeted in ads. But - yes, still connected.
iquanyin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
then why do they still use cookie? i’m genuinely curious.
SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s easy and it started with that.
derpgon@programming.dev 4 months ago
If you know who I am and what I like, gimme some damn relevant ads. No, me clicking the “Not interested” button doesn’t mean the next ad is the same damn thing. Worst are those when I search for something for several weeks, and when I finally find it and buy it a week later, I get peppered by the VERY THING for another week.
No offense, of course. The ad industry is just insanity for me.
For those “Just use an ad blocker” - I do, I just occasionally unblock sites to show support.
SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Some advertisers know their market and pinpoint, others just drag net to see what sticks. You’re getting the equivalent of cold calling for ads. If you show interest in something even once, you’re a target.