They’re all “LGBT mental health and alcohol treatment” combined with “Come party in Vegas!”
Mixed messages, Google. Simultaneously leading me into and out of temptation.
They’re all “LGBT mental health and alcohol treatment” combined with “Come party in Vegas!”
Mixed messages, Google. Simultaneously leading me into and out of temptation.
Well, I’m now seeing in this thread ads for:
“Relationships & Marriage”
“Fix Your Marriage”
“Make Him Fall In Love”
“Repair Your Marriage”
I will not comment on the accuracy of the initial ads.
Well of course, because there is no husband like a crazy drunken gambling queer husband!
Well, I never disputed their accuracy, just their contradictory nature…
I just turned off AdStop to see what would come up:
GLBT Drug Treatment
Are you sick or stupid?
Alcohol Treatment Center
…so apparently I’m an alcoholic, drug abusing bisexual who might be sick or stupid. It is eerie how well Google Ads can read me.
My seven-year-old adores the Game Show Network. Watching that, it become quite apparent that I’m old and fat and obsessed with saving money on car insurance.
The ads can get to be self-perpetuating if mentioned. We have the power to change them! I need office supplies such as Post-It notes and reams of printer paper. And computer memory.
Ooooooo… Car insurance. I need some of that, too.
Oh, maybe I’m transgendered. I need to undo my circumcision damage now.
I’m getting “Never Caucused in Iowa?” Apparently, crazy drunken gambling queers are an important part of the political process, and also they have my IP.
While I do get the Pride Institute, the majority of the ads are simply for alcohol intervention, orientation unspecified.
Yesterday Google ads asked me if I was confused about my sexual orientation.
Well I wasn’t before!
That is weird. Yesterday the Google ads were asking me if I was confused about yur sexual orientation!
I’m getting how to stop drinking alcohol, how to stop smoking, and how to find lots of nice gay men to chat with. OK, I could see that the first two might be of potential use to me, but not the third one so much.
Well fine, we didn’t want to talk to you either Miss Thang! snap
Why can’t it be both?
Well, let’s just hope you never need advice on your decor or a new hairdo.
ETA: Just now I got ads for gay friendly drug-alcohol rehab and “Gay” Vegas. One of these things is not like the other…
“The Google ads think I’m a crazy drunken gambling queer”
That’s ridiculous. You are NOT a gambler.
Actually, AIR, Otto plays on-line poker. There is a rumor that he runs a three-card monty/shell game in downtown Madison but that’s all conjecture.
I have four ads for alcohol treatment centers.
What I drink to excess is soft drinks, and they have no advice for handling that.
ETA: Now they are asking if I will take the Gay Quiz, will engage in gay adoption, and will go to Gay Vegas. Again, they’ve missed the mark spectacularly.
I would have altered this to “have an interest in gay adoption”, but the timer beat me.
And now, to try to break the cycle:
Clocks, pianos, and Judge Crater.
How come the targeting technology never gets that accurate for me?