I had a discussion about high-end coffee machines and looked one up on phone (not buying one!). Only FB app on phone is WhatsApp. Went on computer (guest mode on chromebook) to Facebok and I saw the very very very first high-end coffee maker ad in my life. Any plausible path?
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All my searches are in incognito mode. I know it's hard to believe, but I actually research stuff like this for a living. I put everything in incognito mode and separated devices and sandboxed Facebook just so I could rule that out. https://twitter.com/adnanchcg/status/1263633265749090304 …
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I know! I research this stuff for a living. I’m asking a very specific question.https://twitter.com/amb567/status/1263638538186350593 …
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Facebook aside, Twitter should give every woman an extra 240 characters per tweet to say I research all this for a living and I know all the basic obvious stuff. This makes Twitter unusable—my mentions get overwhelmed by kindergarten level “explaining”. https://twitter.com/topquark/status/126364086562236416 …https://twitter.com/topquark/status/1263640865622364161 …
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The most likely explanation is tracking by IP/Wifi. The speed with which it happened suggests some sort of automatic retargeting. I would like to know if this is something they disclose somewhere, or if this is known to advertisers or others? That’s my core question.
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This thread is going to turn out to be content marketing for a coffee maker, isn't it? "Somehow Facebook tracked me and showed me an ad for the irresistible, satisfying aroma of the ACME-3000"
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Curses. Caught. It's my pandemic influencer gig!
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Do you mind sharing which site(s) you used? Because if you visited brand A and Facebook used that data to target you in favour of brand B, that's definitely something that marketers should be aware of and it would be a very strong reason for them to stop using Facebook trackers.
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Of course it's anecdotal evidence, and many of us have suspected this for a long time, but just coming across a smoking gun is cool.
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The speed at which the information made it from one provider to another is startling.
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Have you considered reaching out to these brand to talk to the people that run their ads to see how they're targeting their customers?
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It was a very very specific conversation, and I'm actually not in the market for coffee machines. And it was instant. Looked up, put phone down, turned on other machine, saw ad for other brand