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.
I constantly get ads about horny milfs in my town but horny milfs are an invasive species where I live and we’re not allowed to have them as pets. I don’t even live in a town. I live in a grand duchy.
I have a running joke with a friend about “what Jeff wants to sell me today”.
(Jeff being Jeff Bezos, i.e. Amazon recommendations.)
Strange things Jeff has wanted to sell me recently:
- falconry equipment
- a gallon of molasses
- a quern-stone
- veterinary surgical adhesives
After playing a bit of Baldur’s Gate 3, I now imagine Jeff Bezos as a deep gnome merchant with an astonishingly random assortment of products …
I’m imagining you going into wal mart, arriving at checkout with all those items in a row. Queue very skeptical look from the cashier.
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…
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.
Around 2010 I was going through a traditional Irish music phase. I remember listening to Pandora while eating my lunch and after the song “Finnegans Wake” I got an advertisement for “Funerals starting at $900 in the {where I lived} area”.
I understand why it was suggested, most people listening to The Dubliners are probably 30-40 years older than me. It also made me laugh to imagine some sales guy going to a funeral home and pitching advertising as a way to drum up more business.
Oh my algorithm is FUCKED because I’m so insanely curious.
So first of all I’m always googling stuff from medical procedures to culture and liguistics. That’s part of how I found out that apparently black Americans will sometimes get a nose job to confirm better to western beauty standards.
Second of all, I will click on everything that I can’t identify, which often turn out to be kitchen implements or specialized hobby equipment. One time I clicked on some weird looking shoes, shortly followed by some bizarre looking amorphous plastic things which turned out to be special climbing shoes and screw-in footholds, respectively.
So anyway, that’s the story of how Google adsense thinks I’m an African American woman who hates her nose but is also extremely passionate about indoor climbing (none of this is even remotely true).
