When I log in to X, Facebook, instagram etc, the majority of my “micro targeted” ad content is for beer belly concealing garments, and male hair loss solutions.
An odd thing about me is, for a late middle aged white guy, my genetics really rolled high for those buckets. My waistline is still stubbornly where it ended up in my mid twenties, and I have an uncannily full head of hair, barely yet greying.
I suspect the ad-tech works about as well as the self-driving car tech.
@cms Even when I was less careful about being tracked, I found the targets ads terrible. For about a year /after/ I got married Facebook would constantly be advertising Russian brides to me.
@hl I used to be really careful about avoiding tracking, it’s true, although I basically gave up doing anything clever beyond using an ad blocker about ten years ago, figuring it was a lost cause.
I have lots of specific nerd interests I spend a bunch of time and money online about, that are highly commercialised. It shouldn’t take much inference.
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