This is one of the standard complaints about targeted ads, yeah. In fact, sometimes I even get ads for the exact dress I just bought. Like, come on, ModCloth, at least show me a different-but-similar dress.
Even if they know not to show me ads for a thing I've bought, though, I think it's complicated by the fact that if I make, say, three distinct visits to the site to look at X, but only actually buy X on one of those visits, then they have "looked at X and didn't buy it" logged a couple times, and so I get ads for X, notwithstanding the fact that I did in fact already buy X on a separate visit.
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Date: 2017-10-09 09:12 pm (UTC)Even if they know not to show me ads for a thing I've bought, though, I think it's complicated by the fact that if I make, say, three distinct visits to the site to look at X, but only actually buy X on one of those visits, then they have "looked at X and didn't buy it" logged a couple times, and so I get ads for X, notwithstanding the fact that I did in fact already buy X on a separate visit.