It’s actually much worse than that isn’t it?
It’s not that your phone is trying to predict and find the stuff you want.
It’s more like, Corporation517 has 10,000 articles of UselessTrinket58929.
Search the market database for the 100,000 Losers most likely to pay the highest price for them.
Load the ad hopper with Advertisement58929
Spam each loser with Advertisement58929, until they clock 40 views.
Wait…
Profit 👍
Oh this subset has been looking at picnic baskets time to show the rest of them picnic supplies
No it’s not like that. Spot the nuance.
They are no driven by serving customers wants, they are driven by shipping whatever thing they have in their warehouse.
They don’t search for the thing you want. They make you want the thing they already have.
Trying to ship the thing that known customers want doesn’t scale. Dumping large volumes of Product712 into a more targeted market surface does.
