Why do I find targeted ads so triggering? 🤬

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I get so annoyed with targeted advertisements. You watch a video about the latest in Off-Grid Solar or Off-Grid Properties and soon your feed is full of advertising for solar scam companies. Watch a video about self-improvement, and be ready to see dozens if not hundreds of ads anywhere you go from Better Help! Have an honest question about the science behind PFOAs?  The trial lawyers are ready to serve you ads. Interested in different materials to build an off-grid property? Roofers, windows companies, bathroom renovators are standing by to sell, sell, sell.

I actually really enjoy trolling those advertisers, making bullshit comments and copying and pasting random things in their comment sections, and clicking on their ads, just to get them charged money. But all it does it cause the algorithms to dig deeper, and think you are actually legitimately interested in the product. I know the algorithms are done, and it’s only causing advertisers to loose a few pennies to the sites their underwriting, but I still find it all so incredibly triggering.

I know real people aren’t actually choosing me to specifically push ads in front of in most cases. While some platforms like Facebook allow name matching, most of it is based on algorithms that look at words and sites I’ve visited in the past to try to guess what I’m interested in, even if most of the guesses are stereotypical and wrong. Maybe because it’s a because I have such unique tastes, but also I think humans are generally unique and algorithms are at best guesses of what might interest the person. And indeed, there are many products that I would be interested in buying today, or maybe tomorrow, though not all of those companies have advertising budgets or the intelligence to actually put advertisements in front of me. And algorithms have a bad time guessing humor and what real humans are thinking.