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by jjoonathan 4404 days ago
It gets worse:

    Black People!
    New and used Black People!
    Check out the deals now!
I'm fairly certain there is a filter of some kind because the first time I saw this circling the internet I wasn't able to replicate the "screenshot" of the ad. Still, it didn't take long to find a substitute phrase that was substantively identical but successfully triggered the dynamic keyword insertion ad.
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I remember seeing those ads when I searched for "toilet paper"

I shuddered at the though of buying used toilet paper.

When my team is testing new AdWords functions or whatever, we like to pick a funny keyword like that, which is also guaranteed to have no one competing against us, so we can easily view our ad in the #1 spot. Sometimes Amazon will actually outbid us on ads for things like "Pre-Chewed Bubblegum" or whatever stupid phrase we've chosen that week. It's always funny to see. You can't even be angry that your ad isn't visible when that happens.