Exactly the one that came to mind, love this one
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.
Y’all need to go on the dark web, people are gambling millions on humidifier vs. dehumidifier battles, the videos are disturbing and end dry or moist.
Almost as good as when I went to Home Depot and the next day I got an email asking me to rate my experience during my recent visit. That creeped me out so much I removed the app from my phone and forced logout on all devices. I have not been back since. And no, I did not pay using a Home Depot card and I am not part of any rewards program with them. Just eeew. If you advertise to me, I will ignore your product and buy something else. If there is not an alternative, then I will either plug my nose and buy it assuming that it is a need, otherwise I go without.
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. “
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!
The Tankies They Don’t Want You To Know About
Heh. *The printers with refillable ink tanks.
I did actually google it and was on the fence on whether or not it was real after seeing some real products
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.
The number of penetrable orifices, extremities with clasping capability reduces the number of useful partners to 3 to 5. Some people are more adventurous. This number appears to work for both men and women and LGBTQ-ist equally unless you count the possibility of taking turns or having various groups and clans in the same household. I mean, one could probably afford a house like that. We would be happier. Kids would get more attention and the population would reduce to a sustainable level. All good things!
They should push you to buy a dehumidifier. Then you can put them on opposite sides of the room for humidity wars.
that’s a crime against humidity
I recently purchased a small apartment. According to calculations, it was cheaper to pay the mortgage than rent a similar size apartment. Now meta thinks I am into collecting apartments in the same postcode. On the other hand, I do find it somewhat useful to see what is happening to the apartment prices around.
To be fair there’s probably people who’re interested in collecting all the apartments in your area.
Oh I dunno, maybe stop using Amazon.
It’s not just Amazon.
Voting with your wallet does indeed go a lot further.
I bought a specific airfilter from home depot once (prob 15 years ago). 6 months later I went back because I needed a filter. I couldn’t remember which one I bought so I popped on their website, from my phone. I found the unit I bought and got the filter that it needed from the store.
For the next 3 weeks straight, every other add on every page, on facebook, on amazon, on everywhere was the air cleaner I purchased. They must have spent at least $5 on me alone it was the only static ad I saw the entire time.
Similarly:
We’ve been tracking you for decades now. We know your location at all times. We know about the humidifier you bought. We know you do everything in English, but we also know you’re trying to learn Spanish. We know who your family members are based on your interactions with them, and we have vast databases on them too. We know about the plane ticket to Turkey. We know about the new bathing suit you bought. We know about the English language guidebook you bought for Turkey.
We know you’re now in Turkey on your vacation.
Here’s an ad in Turkish for a humidifier sold in a Turkish store.
You go to a different country, and despite the massive privacy invasions, and the terabytes of data they have about every aspect of your lives, they think you speak the local language and show you ads you can’t even understand for products you’d never buy while there on a vacation.
I was a part of Amazon vine for a while. It’s Amazon’s program where they offer you shit for free that other companies want to give away in order to get reviews rolling in for new products.
Amazon offers around two to eight “just for you” items most days from these people, based on your order history and ad info crap they have on you.
Well I made the mistake of getting a black toner cartridge for my laser printer through vine once. That will last me like a decade.
Apparently, Amazon now thinks that I own 5000 printers of all different kinds and I’m never good on ink. Most days I would have at least 5 of my recommendations be printer ink or toner. Every single damned day it wanted me to get more ink. For months and months and months.
I see you’ve just bought a HDMI cable, but what about second HDMI cable?
We think you’ll love it
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
