On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:25:17 +0100 > Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > (...) > >> Back when we had TV advertisements >> for beer, it was always the rubbish beers that got the publicity. > > here (Germany) we still have those TV ads for beer, and I can assure > you that the advertised brands (its not up to me to decide whether > they are rubbish or not) are the ones that are available virtually > everywhere, so I believe that it is safe to assume that they are > also the brands that sell. > So yes, unfortunately at least in some cases advertisements apparently > pay. If they didn't pay, companies would have stopped sinking vast amounts of effort and expense into them a century ago. >> As for 'targetted advertising', I've never seen any. When I notice >> the ads around the sides of web pages, none of them are aimed at me > > The same here. So maybe I have developed some skills obscuring my > "profile" to "them", or (maybe more likely) I am just too dumb to > realize that those ads *are* in fact targeted at me :-) If they're targeted at me, I try to make sure they miss. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ "Alexa, define 'bugging'."
