On: I stopped advertising and nothing happened

[Workaccount2]

I knew a guy who would serially impulse buy things off Instagram. I don't know about plane tickets, but his apartment was full of random shit he bought off his feed. Just alone he was probably covering the bandwidth cost of his entire town.

[sammalloy → Workaccount2]

> I knew a guy who would serially impulse buy things off Instagram.

No lie, Insta knows what I want to buy before I know, and it’s very scary. I’m not an impulse buyer by any stretch of the imagination, but their advertising is some of the best I’ve ever seen anywhere on the internet.

[Spooky23 → sammalloy]

Instagram knows nothing about me, i saw the ads for the Canadian metal top the other day.

They are the modern version of home shopping network. They make a fortune out of lonely people buying random shit.

[girvo → sammalloy]

That should not be surprising considering who owns them and how much data they have on us.

[lostlogin → Workaccount2]

If you could find a few of these people, being a middle man for advertising campaigns targeting them would be one sleazy side business.

[whimsicalism → lostlogin]

This is already a thing.

To be honest, any of the advertising schemes being dreamed up here in the comments section of HN are already a thing.