I agree with all of this. It is just impractical - hence adblocking...
> An example of a thing that I recently found amusing/annoying is that I purchased a large ticket home appliance recently, and for a week or more after that purchase there was a huge increase in ads for that particular large ticket item, as if I might buy more of them or something.
This is actually solid marketing. They are trying to re-enforce in your mind that you made a good purchase. This should prevent buyers remorse and is aimed to manipulate you into telling other people how great your new whatever is.
>This is actually solid marketing. They are trying to re-enforce in your mind that you made a good purchase. This should prevent buyers remorse and is aimed to manipulate you into telling other people how great your new whatever is.
Well in that case, they don't know me as well as they think; because it does not do what they think it does. They also run a risk doing that kind of thing. Last year I bought two monitors, and within a week the price dropped by a large amount. I might not have have noticed that if they hadn't been spraying ads for the products I'd just bought in my direction. Amazon didn't want to honor the price-matching guarantee. I almost cancelled my Prime account over it. Now, I make a point to watch for price changes immediately after purchase.
> An example of a thing that I recently found amusing/annoying is that I purchased a large ticket home appliance recently, and for a week or more after that purchase there was a huge increase in ads for that particular large ticket item, as if I might buy more of them or something.
This is actually solid marketing. They are trying to re-enforce in your mind that you made a good purchase. This should prevent buyers remorse and is aimed to manipulate you into telling other people how great your new whatever is.