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by cwkoss 1276 days ago
Ad algorithms are never going to do what you want because companies which make great products don't need to advertise. Advertising is a mechanism for inducing artificial demand: the products you actually want don't need to be advertised to you because you'll seek it out at no expense to them - the market for your attention is in manipulating you into buying inferior and overpriced alternatives.