{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "My blog now has Google ads!\r\n The supposedly targeted ad is for Caesar\u2019s Palace.\r\n None of my recent blog posts have mentioned...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/92784440578/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/92783528666/my-blog-now-has-google-ads-the-supposedly\" target=\"_blank\">slatestarscratchpad</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My blog now has Google ads!</p>\n<p>The supposedly targeted ad is for Caesar\u2019s Palace.</p>\n<p>None of my recent blog posts have mentioned Caesar, palaces, Rome, Las Vegas, or gambling.</p>\n<p>But the blog post I was working on earlier today, which has not yet been posted and is still on my computer and which no one except me has seen, mentions Caesar\u2019s Palace by name in the context of a long discussion of something that happened to me in Las Vegas.</p>\n<p>Google is getting <em>way</em> too good at what they do.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Eesh.<br/><br/>I\u2019ve suddenly gotten ads for Prilosec the day after I put Pepcid down for \u201ccurrent medications\u201d on the browser-based new patient form in my optometrist\u2019s office, yesterday I got an ad I\u2019m pretty sure was based on something I bought with a credit card in a meatspace store an hour earlier, at least I can visualize the mechanism for those.<br/><br/>Did you maybe copy the Caesar\u2019s Palace text to clipboard while you had a browser open? That\u2019s the only thing I can think of.</p>"}