Post-Purchase Targeted Ads
Users primarily complain about targeted online ads that continue showing products they have recently purchased, deeming them irrelevant and poorly timed, while some defend retargeting or note occasional relevance. Discussions question the effectiveness of such advertising and share personal anecdotes of annoyance.
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Will those ads know that I bought/browsed for something several month ago and still try to sell me similar products that I no longer need?
Do you actually get relevant online ads? I usually get ads about the thing I just bought
Who else will follow me around the internet with ads for products I've already purchased and will never ever purchase again?
That's how targeted ads work - if you bought a product in the past, you must be interested in buying the same type of products, every week, forever, and you'll be interested in seeing ads for these products.
i usually get ads for things that i just bought. That means they are very good at snooping, on the other hand if I just bought a TV set then that doesn't mean that i would need another one soon.Funny that Goole/Facebook currently don't seem to be running ads for complements of products too often; Amazon is better at that (if you bought this book, then you might also want this one).
Are you sure the data is from the purchase? For example, did you search for similar things before making the purchase?Otherwise, sometimes I suspect ads are targeted by IP. Sometimes I see ads for things my wife is interested in.You might want to try VPN. At least you'll see ads for all the sketchy things other VPN users buy!
The only targeted ads I ever see are for items I have already purchased.I don't see why these ads don't work like Amazon's "People who bought this also bought" recommendations.
I see the line of "they showed me an ad for X after I bought one on their site!" thrown around a lot as a sign of incompetence, but the fact you made the purchase recently actually makes you a good target demographic.You wanted some good and paid money for it. There's is now a real chance that the good you bought did not meet your needs, it broke it sucks, etc. If so, you're a prime target for these ads. If it broke you're probably looking for a new brand, or m
I can tell you that Instgram serves up ads for things I didn't know that I wanted that I end up buying.
The worst kind of targeting is when I go to a website, browse some similar items comparing their features and price, buy one... and now you decide to show me ads about those same products for the next week even if it should be clear that I've already made up my mind (I'm looking at you, Amazon).