WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll ·
02/02/2019 02:52
First-world problem alert:
Does anybody else get a little bit annoyed when you look at something online once and then get bombarded for months afterwards with ads for that product?
I realise that, algorithmically from the seller's POV, it makes perfect sense, as somebody who has seen a product online is clearly very much more likely to buy it than somebody who hasn't ever seen it, so I can see why you'd therefore be targeted.
However, it still doesn't stop the irritation if one or more of the following applies:
- You unwittingly clicked on a link that mentioned it;
- Your fat finger accidentally caught an unwanted advert (especially if your phone took a moment to react and then skipped up more or less than you'd intended it to);
- You DID indeed mean to click on that product, when you did so four months ago and then, within the following few days, you either bought it, found an alternative or decided not to buy one after all. Now you've long moved on with your life, with or without that or a similar product. Especially annoying if it was a ludicrously-expensive 'if-I-won-the-lottery' momentary flight of fancy, a surprise present or something slightly embarrassing and your DC spots it when nosying at your screen sharing quality family time engaging educationally with technology;
- You happened to see a small red table-top electric cooker thing on the late-night 'Teleshopping' between the old repeat programmes whose design happens to look very much indeed like a bizarre comedy mini pet toilet slightly unusual and had later looked for it online for the sole purpose of showing it to somebody for immature, childish giggles their general information
Added to this the large number of American adverts that I seem to have got of late on MN, when I'm in the UK (not using a VPN) and these (unsurprisingly) have no relevance at all to me.
Is there ANYTHING on Earth that is worse than this?
Yes, literally millions of things, but AIBU to still be mildly irked by it?!