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It’s always laughable to me that these companies are able to have the meta data on our entire lives and yet show ads for shit we don’t even want.
Shit you don't want yet. That's the idea of ads, trying to sell you shit you don't want or need. Why advertise the stuff that you're already buying?
There are tons of products I'd impulse buy, old lego sets, spice and hot sauce samplers, custom gaming dice.
I won't normally go out to shop for them but if they show up as an ad I may click and buy.
But they NEVER advertise anything to me that I like or am interested in. It's always bullshit
Exactly. Show me ads for guitar parts, pen inks, and 80’s kid stuff. I would impulse buy the shit out of that. Instead it’s “Want this loot box filled with bullshit that a hipster is trying to sell”. No thanks.