• @jmsy@lemmy.world
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    349 days ago

    in my experience, reddit advertising has been idiotic for several years.

    I go to a basketball subreddit. there are no relevant ads about basketball. not local team tickets, not streaming services, basketball equipment, basketball merch, or even a video game.

    I go to a subreddit for a tv show. it’s similar. There are no ads or links to buy dvds or tickets to a convention or anything related to the show.

    They could totally target advertising based on subreddit and they don’t.

    • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      149 days ago

      Is this because they think they’re more likely to get a more valuable click by showing you targeted ads from the highest bidder?

      Targeted ads always seem to be so poorly targeted.