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grues-dinner a day ago

Pretty much every day Amazon advertises a film to me that I watched on the same platform's account a couple of weeks ago. Presumably it also knows enough to determine that the account isn't shared so it's not advertising to other family members or something.

For all the billions spent on ad targeting, it's pretty coarse.

dehugger a day ago | parent [-]

It's not to get you to watch that specific movie again, rather its purpose is to remind you that you watched something you (hopefully) enjoyed on their platform so you are more likely to keep doing so.

grues-dinner 21 hours ago | parent [-]

If interrupting a video to remind me that I watched a film (that I didn't even especially like) two weeks ago is the best modern big-data AI-leveraging advertising tech can do maybe adtech isn't worth all the data centres full of GPUs crunching the data.