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Ads are everywhere (self.microthoughts)

submitted 1 year ago by Izzy to c/microthoughts

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Ads are everywhere, but I don't think I've ever bought something because of an ad. If anything they steer me away from their product. The amount of money, effort and bandwidth required to get all of these ads in front of my eyes only to be completely useless must be staggering.

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[–] Capt_Brunch 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't buy anything I see in ads. But have bought many things other people have told me about, or I've stumbled on through Amazon.

[–] dan1101 3 points 1 year ago

The "other products you may be interested in" sort of thing are ads IMO. Same thing as when you watch an Amazon Prime video and they show an ad for one of their own shows. I'm not sure why they think that advertising their own show isn't an ad, that's not what I clicked Play on.