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Marketers can’t predict what you’ll buy — even if they use A.I. (archive.vn)

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It's true, I bought a coffee machine recently from a physical store, I use secure browsers, Ad blockers ect on my computer, but still for months afterwards on my phone i was getting targeted ads showing me coffee machines, A coffee is the kind of product you buy once every 5 - 10 years, i always wondered wtf the would target ads at me after ive already bought the machine? Like how many coffee machines does the average person have or need?

The AI or what ever was driving these ads completely missed the mark and was showing me shit i certainly didnt need.

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Amazon is really bad about that. I bought some items that were in the same vein, a purchase you make once every several years, and once you have it you don't need more. Until I cleared the view history, I kept getting "You may also like..."

No, I wouldn't. I can't use more than one of these at a time, no matter how hard you want me to.

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Which is exactly why sheep must be massively chipped and tracked - behavior analysis is a key for the last mile optimization.

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Hahaha faggots

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The social dilemma movie and it's accompanying podcast "your undivided attention" are great on this topic.

The problem is giggle and fb are over selling their ads 60% of the ads sold are never even seen but a person.

So you've got all this data that this person has seen this ad 100 times so they should be buying it by now. But they've actually only seen it 40 times. And how much where they really liking it at

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/?sh=4603111f6668

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I remember that there was considerable backlash over that story.

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