Google Content Retargeting is Annoying the Shit out of Me

[faceblogger]

It's annoying a lot

 

[megatabbers]

The average consumer simply doesnt notice them as much as we do. I practically drive around town noticing pretty much all big ads out there (and facepalming to them) because I am a marketer. Normal people don't do that. We notice that stuff way more than the average crowd. Thats probably making us all go insane.

You do have a point there...

 

[GerardWon]

Yep I can relate. I see this bald doofus about 500 times a week.

You should try it out as your avatar. Embrace the demon.

just sayin

 

[Compound]

for all of the companies in the data aggregation space & the millions spent on ad serving technology, remarketing has a long way to go...

 

[blogspotter]

I bought a luggage once and ebags trolled me for 3 months.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Everytime I notice the same ads chasing me around the Internet I just clear cookies/cache and that takes care of it. Am I missing something?

 

[LotsOfZeros]

Apparently Google got complaints from people who started getting random dildo ads whilst they were surfing the net.

Imagine my personal embarrassment when these ads show up at work as a result of me logging into my gmail account there - it carries the retarget data with your login. Now everyone knows I buy anal-eaze by the gallon.

 

[Mr Jacksonian]

Aweber won't leave me alone, ever.

 

[robognome]

ccleaner: its free, safe to use on bright colors, and will even get rid of those stubborn, hard to get-rid of flash cookies.

 

[conv3rsion]

Ok time to clear the cookies before I go postal

 

[cardine]

ccleaner

 

[airforcematt]

ccleaner

This. CCleaner is awesome.

 

[Fiver]

Had to resurrect this old thread as Liquid Web is still annoying the shit outta me. Can't they figure out that I'm a fucking customer of theirs and that the ads are a waste of money on me??

Does anyone here use Ghostery? I thought there was a way with that to block just a single advertiser but all I see on the control panel is how to block an entire platform like Adsense or 24/7.

 

[-joe-]

I just delete all Google cookies once a week, stops search results being targeted to you too.

In Firefox: Options>Privacy>Remove Individual Cookies>Search for "goog">hold down delete key (I think delete all works too, but I haven't tested, cause there's plenty of cookies I want to keep, and don't want to lose them all).

 

[contract]

Number of times I've ever clicked on a retargeting ad and bought a product... = 0.

 

[dreamscape]

Seems like I've been seeing a lot of ads from places that I already bought from...
Doesn't really makes any sense...

 

[Zsaleem]

 

[K-Noop]

Number of times I've ever clicked on a retargeting ad and bought a product... = 0.

I prefer my remarketing list not to click. Free Branding FTW!

 

[AdamC]

i just do my general browsing incog

 

[chigga102]

I havent seen a banner ad, a youtube ad or a lot of other ads in a while. Not even googlehammer lol the power of adblock ^^