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What is the most memorable/strange targeted AD you've gotten online? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by ericbomb to c/asklemmy

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Recently I keep seeing suggested/ads for things making fun of electric vehicles.

My favorite car I ever owned was a nissan leaf, and right now I have an electric scooter, so not sure what I did to get on list of "people who hate electric vehicles" and why that's even a list.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So it isn't a strange item, but the length of time I got targeted ads was absurd.

In 2018 I had to buy a new mattress. I Googled directions to the nearest mattress store and got a mattress. For the next 3 years every single video ad I got anywhere was for mattresses. Do y'all know how many people decided to just start making mattresses... I didn't think the ads would end...

[–] ericbomb 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't buy a mattress every week?

[–] LordOfTheChia 5 points 1 year ago

Subscribe and save!

[–] LaunchesKayaks 2 points 1 year ago

Should I be doing that...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, how many of you aren't getting a weekly mattress? Our family gets a new mattress every fortnight TOPS.

3 years seems like an insane amount of time between mattresses.

[–] LaunchesKayaks 2 points 1 year ago

I've been living my life all wrong and I have nobody to blame but myself...