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by geysersam 1059 days ago
I've seen this narrative a lot in this thread. But if Googles ad-algorithm was actually good I'd expect to occasionally see useful ads. But Googles ad-algorithm is far from perfect. That's why people use reddit or other community aggregators to find useful products, the search engines just really suck at that task.
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If you are like many of the commenters on here who is using adblockers and abstains from social networks, this is precisely why you see shitty ads.

Also if you aren't buying anything by clicking them, advertisers are ignoring you because you aren't a valuable user to them.

You are most likely reaping what you sew. Which shows that the ad networks are actually working.