A: It's crazy how obvious it is now and B: How utterly useless it is to see ads for the exact thing you just googled and either didn't want or already bought. That's not very intelligent "targeted marketing" I don't LOVE sideview mirror for 2011 Scion xB driver side. I just needed a new one to replace a broken one. I don't need my whole feed flooded with screenshots of the google search I just did. I know they're technically trying to make my ad experience seem less random but fuck off, dude.
Every site I go to is just the same "hey you spent 5 mins looking at search results for Lemon chicken recipes, here's some ads for those same search results for Lemon chicken recipes just in case you didn't complete your search and make a final decision about it" Every place on the internet that has ads is the same thing like that... except Twitter.. or X now. Since Elon Musk has fucked the platform so bad that all the legit advertisers have left. When I'm on there now for the brief moments I am these days I just see the same dildo ad over and over. Literally it's some hi-tech sex toy company. That's all he has left.
I hate AI as you probably already know from the several posts I've made about it but in this instance I wonder if it could be used to get a more broad spectrum of my tastes and interests that goes deeper into the personal data that was sold to them without my permission to create advertising that isn't just a repeat of my last handful of Google searches. I have to scroll past constant reminders of things I recently purchased yet I somehow missed that my favorite band just released a new video and announced a new album. I'm sure if these advertising fucks spent more than a nanosecond scouring my digital life they'd know more about me.
I think I was actually less angry with ads when they were for random shit instead of a pathetic attempt to market to me specifically. Come on algorithms, you can do better.
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