Recently I keep seeing suggested/ads for things making fun of electric vehicles.
My favorite car I ever owned was a nissan leaf, and right now I have an electric scooter, so not sure what I did to get on list of “people who hate electric vehicles” and why that’s even a list.
So it isn’t a strange item, but the length of time I got targeted ads was absurd.
In 2018 I had to buy a new mattress. I Googled directions to the nearest mattress store and got a mattress. For the next 3 years every single video ad I got anywhere was for mattresses. Do y’all know how many people decided to just start making mattresses… I didn’t think the ads would end…
You don’t buy a mattress every week?
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I constantly get ads about horny milfs in my town but horny milfs are an invasive species where I live and we’re not allowed to have them as pets. I don’t even live in a town. I live in a grand duchy.
That sounds less like ads and more like a local emergency alert system.
I have a running joke with a friend about “what Jeff wants to sell me today”.
(Jeff being Jeff Bezos, i.e. Amazon recommendations.)
Strange things Jeff has wanted to sell me recently:
- falconry equipment
- a gallon of molasses
- a quern-stone
- veterinary surgical adhesives
After playing a bit of Baldur’s Gate 3, I now imagine Jeff Bezos as a deep gnome merchant with an astonishingly random assortment of products …
Few years ago I got an “ad” that was just some dudes really bad call of duty black ops 2 sniping montage.
I mean full on some of the most meh trickshots and quickscopes I think I’ve ever seen, against the built in AI opponents that you can enable in custom games, something like 5 or so years after the game was actually relevant to pop culture.
YouTube gave me an ad for an organisation to deradicalize islamic terrorists.
The night before a terror bombing very close to my house, organised and readied in a house a few blocks from me that I walk past to get the bus.
Around 2010 I was going through a traditional Irish music phase. I remember listening to Pandora while eating my lunch and after the song “Finnegans Wake” I got an advertisement for “Funerals starting at $900 in the {where I lived} area”.
I understand why it was suggested, most people listening to The Dubliners are probably 30-40 years older than me. It also made me laugh to imagine some sales guy going to a funeral home and pitching advertising as a way to drum up more business.
It’s brilliant audience choice, though. Fully 100% of Spotify listeners are going to die.
Back in the day, my shaver broke so I looked online for a new one. Bought one, and afterwards I had ads for nothing but electric shavers. It was so friggin bizarre, like reading some random article and getting 6 ads for shavers. That’s when I finally started using adblock.
I don’t understand the logic of that for long term products! Like maybe do it for 2 weeks after you first search, and then maybe 3 years later.
Like, how can that possibly work?
I was bra shopping and clicked on one that was also a breast pump. Started getting ads for baby stuff for a couple months. I also listen to Spotify at work, there are currently a bunch of Hispanic construction workers working on the building. Since then about a third of my Spotify ads are in Spanish. I don’t speak Spanish.
Xbox gives me Spanish HBO max ads. No other ads are in Spanish and the only thing slightly Spanish on my Xbox is part of one of my friends real name.
I block all possible ads so I haven’t been getting any random ones in ages, but my email provider has an ad for “Moorhuhn” on their page that always slips through the filter somehow so whenever I check my emails I’m asked to shoot virtual chickens.
I should check my ad vault to see what ads Adnausem is blocking for me.
I was snowmobiling with my brother in an area with no cell service. We stopped for a break and I mentioned that the headlights kind of looked like Blinky the 3 eyed fish from the Simpsons. I have never said that out loud before or after, and I haven’t even watched the Simpsons in years. The next day I get an ad on Instagram for a sticker of Blinky the 3 eyed fish. Thats so specific it could not have been a coincidence. My phone must have heard me say that that one time, REMEMBERED it until I get back into an area with cell service, and then phoned home to tell whatever corpo that I might be interested in Blinky. Wild stuff.
I keep seeing adverts for hearing aids, retirement homes and ‘miracle’ cosmetic treatments. WTF Google, I’m not out of my 40s yet!
Less juicy than some here.
I keep getting ads about my employer - a B2B / B2E business. Not sure how Facebook thinks I may be a purchaser at a business. I am not.
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