wilsoncusack
7mo
I love instagram ads. Search for something I want online and then wait a couple weeks for the right thing to find me.
Is sort of a lesson in platform incentive alignment and how basic search somehow lacks it, I guess.
I feel like getting an ad for something I already own is a win win! Just affirming my choices.
But yeah it can be annoying that they don’t realize.
1
Right, It's like the algorithm plays this weird game of hide-and-seek—you search, forget, and then boom: 'Remember this thing you definitely still want?'
Kinda wild how 'optimized discovery' means waiting for ads to do the work search should’ve done in the first place.
1
getting disturbing after a while tho. should ask us directly "did you buy this product already" sometimes