How are the enworlds ads suitable for children?

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tetrasodium

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Not entirely. There’s something else going on. Maybe some kind of randomizer. I get ads in languages I don’t speak for products I don’t have any need for and have never searched for. Not always, but often enough to be noticeable.
I don't know if you have target stores where you are, but their receipts always have a bunch of coupons on the back.
A good number of them are salt that are deliberately things they expect you to be uninterested in. Targey salts them because it creeps people out of things are targeted too well. The Targey article talks about it

Google sds also include options ad buyers can cheaply shove their ads in that are barely targeted if they are targeted at all, those are probably a good chunk of their salt. Some of the ads will also be just cheap scattergun tsrgeyio because there are a certain number of people who speak that language expected to be into in that thing also visiting some of same sites at similar times. I'll occasionally get Norwegian(?) ads because the city I live in happens to have a pretty sizeable Norwegian population and a yearly event I've never seen to
 

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bedir than

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Not entirely. There’s something else going on. Maybe some kind of randomizer. I get ads in languages I don’t speak for products I don’t have any need for and have never searched for. Not always, but often enough to be noticeable.
I get Spanish language ads quite frequently, including on Spotify.

I assume it's because I watch, talk, and read about soccer quite a bit.
 




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I don't know if you have target stores where you are, but their receipts always have a bunch of coupons on the back.
A good number of them are salt that are deliberately things they expect you to be uninterested in. Targey salts them because it creeps people out of things are targeted too well. The Targey article talks about it

Google sds also include options ad buyers can cheaply shove their ads in that are barely targeted if they are targeted at all, those are probably a good chunk of their salt. Some of the ads will also be just cheap scattergun tsrgeyio because there are a certain number of people who speak that language expected to be into in that thing also visiting some of same sites at similar times. I'll occasionally get Norwegian(?) ads because the city I live in happens to have a pretty sizeable Norwegian population and a yearly event I've never seen to
Oh, I know about advertising techniques and methodologies*. So I know when certain companies have done massive ad buys, “overriding” the automated algorithms. That stuff is obvious.

It‘s when I get things like ads for real estate agencies in foreign countries where I can’t even legally own property that puzzle me.

And recently, I’ve been getting ads for some evangelical ministry fronted by a pastor I’ve never heard of. As a Roman Catholic who does few religiously-oriented online searches for much beyond holiday mass times at Catholic churches, I have no clue as to what’s triggering this.







* MBA in marketing
 
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pukunui

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Lately I've mostly been getting ads for some horror streaming service and Microsoft Azure, neither of which I'd class as being targeted at me specifically.
 



Morrus

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Ads are generated by Google based on your browsing history and the information it knows about you. They're not being shown to children, they're being shown to you. The more interesting question is why does Google think those ads are suitable for you?
 

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