VOA Burmese?
Voice of America.
Obviously. It’s the Burmese part that was surprising.
Aren’t kpop fans too young to be on Facebook?
psy is 44 years old.
I make ONE MEME with joe biden wearing sunglassess and now all facebook is showing me is ads for sunglassess. I mean I literally am not getting a single ad for anything else. In four minutes of scrolling I screencaped TWENTY ads, a few from the big guys (Oakley, Maui Jim etc) but mostly for no-name startups selling sustainable biodegradable plastic or whatever
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I get ads based on conversations I’ve had sometimes.
Feels like that, but I think it’s just that either you or someone else in that conversation or someone linked to them then or before searched for those things.
I tried with colleagues to get ads for something we explicitly all didn’t google (I think it was kayaking, or mountaineering related or something) by mentioning it in meetings and emails and it never showed up.
When the FB ad algorithm latches on to something, it REALLY latches on. Don’t ever go to one of the car buying sites (Carbuyer, Caribana, Vroom, etc) to sell a vehicle if you don’t want every ad you ever see again to be trying to buy your car.
Also, with stuff like sunglasses I think a lot of those are just buying shit off aliexpress for pennies and selling at an insane markup. I used to get ads for watches where they’d be “giving them away for free ($199 value!) to help build their brand”. Just pay shipping cost of $19.99! Found the exact same watches on aliexpress for like $4 including shipping.
What was the meme you made? Did it actually have the word “sunglasses” in it, or just a photo?
yeah the “phone is listening and I get ads” myth is total bunk, come on guys
actually I don’t remember what I did that would trigger this
I’ve been getting OnlyFans ads. Seems like a fun site where people can have the freedom to share their lifestyles or something.
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I’m a couple months behind on Conan podcasts but on the one I was listening to this morning he was complaining about how he lost his kindle and whoever found it started ordering a bunch of books on his account. It was a whole long story that didn’t seem to bother him that much until he got into his targeted ad changes. Lost an expensive device and maybe ate the charges on the fraudulent purchases but the most distressing thing was knowing Amazon would forever send him garbage book recommendations now. It was funny cause it’s true.
It’s bad. Very very bad. I get google ads based on conversations in my house. Like “honey what do you think of Costa Rica” and BANG a week of Costa Rica hotel ads.
Partner search is definitely a thing. Why do you think it’s not that?
I was getting adds for x specific headphone for weeks. Then Mrs Rugby was like. “I’ve finally narrowed it down. I know which headphones I’m going to buy”
Me: x?
We had never had the conversation.
Like surely Mrs Rman may have googled CR? Or someone you know did, which is why you got inceptioned.
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Whoa, me too.
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