Now, I get it when I’m looking up a mattress, and for the next several weeks, even AFTER I’ve bought the mattress, the pop-up ads are for mattresses. That is part and parcel of the cookies or something somewhere knows what I was interested in for a short moment.
Today, an ad for Culver’s shows up. I dread google-mapping the nearest Culvers, but I think it is over 1000 miles away. Or in the Inland Empire. But I repeat myself, metaphorically.
OK, closest one is near Lake Havasu. 250 miles away. A bunch in the Phoenix area. I’ll be getting those ads on my phone now.
So, post when you get a completely random side ad.
If you are signed into chrome then you can tell google to not show you personalized ads. you will still see the same amt of ads just not mattress ads for a month after you bought one.
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Uranus is in MO, Mianus is in CT. I went to college in Rolla, MO and used to drive past the Uranus signs all the time.
But speaking of ads, I’ve been seeing ads for the gutter products - the ones supposed to keep the leaves out - for years. Do these companies just pay to spam everyone, or what am I doing here? I’ve seriously been getting ads for years. Our house came with the mesh ones that work well, so I’ve never looked at buying these. But they pop up every so often.
We keep getting mailer ads from them, probably 2 a month. Our house is located at least 10 feet away from all trees, and they’re all pine so they drop straight down. 8 years of the house being here, gutters have never needed cleaned.
Bump.
I’m now getting ads for generators (expected, as I did google and click one) and Hawaiian, or “aloha” shirts.
No, I did not google “proud boys” or whatever shitty group has now decided that aloha shirts were their thing. I don’t recall any conversation I had in earshot of phone or laptop about Aloha shirts. But, there they are. It was certainly months ago when looked them up. Maybe that’s all I’ve done recently and ads gonna ad.
Crazy thing is, I have a good-sized inventory of Tommy Bahama and other Aloha-style shirts (one a vintage 1970’s that my dad wore exactly once) already and am in no mood to purchase any more.
I did have dinner in a Tommy Bahama restaurant recently, though.
Local Toyota Dealer ad popped up. I’m not in the market. Eight pictures, seven are SUV/Trucks. Eighth one is Supra maybe?
Also, outdoor heaters, which I bought over a year ago. Unless they think their own product will die, I’m not in the market.
To be fair, though the Red Rocks Casino ad showed up after I checked out their too-expensive suites for a potential FF Draft.
Umpire equipment. I was looking for armbands for our Youth Referees to remind coaches and spectators to STFU about the refs for their volunteering efforts at a match that means, in the long run, absolutely nothing. No, you do not have 1st Amendment Rights at this park. We are not Congress. We are just running a program to get your kids off their screens for an hour or so on Saturday.
