With all the surveillance & data collection we online users are subjected to.... you'd think it would at least work well.
I make no effort to block ads & trackers on YouTube besides my usual adblocking extensions - worse I use their native Android app which I'm sure tracks the shit out of my viewing habits.
And yet the only ads I ever see on Youtube - over & over are for a service to send money overseas & a big online shopping site. Over & over.
Maybe I disabled a "personalized ads" checkbox somewhere.. but then wouldn't they fall back to matching the ads to the content of the video? Like broadcast TV used to do.
Like if I'm watching a programming video shouldn't I see some ads for - crazy thought - technology? Or if I watch an exercise video I should see ads for fitness or athletic stuff?
All this profiling, tracking & analyzing Google does... and they are just super bad at advertising.
It's insulting really.
#google #advertising
They haven't even figured out that if I've seen an ad 100+ times (which I have with the money transfer service) and I haven't clicked the ad or visited their site by now... Then I'm PROBABLY not a good target for this ad & it's time to try another.
Is this not just very basic & obvious?
If I have to keep watching a few seconds of ads before I can skip... I'd at least like to be shown a variety of products & services I might not be aware of. Broaden my horizons or something.