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Yep, I see this all the time too. Buy a printer? Amazon thinks you want to buy a new printer every day for months.

Google too. I bought a Pixel 2 online, from Google, signed in to Google. Now I see ads on Google ad networks all day long to buy a Pixel 2. It has been 5 months of daily ads from Google to buy the phone I just bought. Ridiculous.

Ad networks are a clear financial win for AI - but they also show the ridiculousness and are clear windows into the failures so far.




This. For all the talk about how Facebook is mining data to hyper-target customers, it still seems like they're still trying to throw stuff at the wall to see if it sticks.




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