Google's ad-serving is dumb as a rock. It seems to be based just on things it thinks you may be interested in, even when it should be 100% obvious that they are not things you are going to buy.

They should let people have more control over what ads they do and don't see.

If Google served me ads on stuff I was interested in (I'd be happy to tell them) rather than women's clothing, they I might buy it. I'm a guy - show me as many skimpily dressed women as you like, but I have no need for women's clothes! Try it once or a hundred times it you must, but maybe after the millionth non-purchase you'd think they might figure it out and use that screen real-estate to serve an ad for something that my purchase history or what they know about me indicates I might have some interest in!

Dumb as a rock.

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pbhjpbhj 2 hours ago | parent [-]

They've got ads to shift, they need eyeballs, they don't really care about conversion beyond if it hits the bottom line.

It's like the whole purpose of ads, they're not trying to sell you stuff you need - they want your money.

	▲	HarHarVeryFunny 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, the advertizers want my money, which they are not getting - wrong ads. Google wants the advertizers' money, who are really being scammed by Google if they pay every time Google serves an ad to me that Google presumably knows is not going to result in a purchase. I guess Google don't care - if they get paid for click-thrus and I occasionally do that, but never buy, then Google still gets their money.