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AFAIK, these companies are making record revenue.
From what? Is my mom clicking on that many ads and buying their shit?
Spoiler: >!Yes she is.!<
My mom: I don't want ad blocker I want to see what the ads are selling!
Also my mom: Malware ridden phone I have to clean every two months
She has a constant stream of useless, scammy shit from temu ripoffs being sent to her house constantly and I just had to get some AI face filter subscription she swears she didn't sign up for off her bank account.
But she'll constantly tell you how much she hates technology.
The cringe I crunge at "I want to see what the ads are selling" like that is some straight up boomer mindset, like nothing against your mom, but like it's insane to me that there's an entire cohort of people who kind of think this way. Like they always had so much money they needed ads to help them figure out how to spend it. Must have been cool
Yep iv have read and thought for minimum 2 hours, probably way more, for a 50 euro mouse
Ive done the same for a keyboard,i know some of the flaws in the software used for the fucking remaping of keys, i could probably reflash the firmware with minimum additional research, for a keyboard i dont actualy have
And people are out there buying the crap on ads
Im simply haveing a hard time imagening what exactly they are thinking
Nah, I agree entirely. I cringe very often when in her presence. She is the stereotypical oilfield money boomer.
Do we have the same parents?
Hello brother
Just because they buy ad space doesn't mean those ads are effective.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/
Facebook shows an after every two posts in my feed.
From scams
I think this is what makes me the most angry.
My daughter wanted some toy, so I Google it, and go to one of the top results for it, thinking it's a legitimate website. I go through the checkout process, but it's weird and hanging. And then they text me some "verification code" I'm supposed to enter which is actually my CC code for my account. A total scam. I do some more searches and this is a common scam for this toy. So I cancel our credit card immediately.
But what pisses me off is that this totally fraudulent website was a top results from Google. They could have verified that shit! But instead they chose to serve me up to wolves.
There's no "They". There's nobody home. Nobody's looking at this shit, it's all just algorithms and machine learning, there's nobody customer-facing at Google who's job it is to vet this crap. Your scammy website passed some set of automated metrics Google uses to determine scamminess, so it's off to the front page of search results it goes.
Just because Google doesn't do it doesn't mean they can't. I don't believe you that they couldn't implement some automated means of vetting it; it's just more profitable not to.