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Maybe, but the ads I get on Facebook are a horror show of not really interesting almost garbage offerings. For all the data they have, they do a piss poor job of presenting me with enticing opportunities.

I’ll take context/search relevant ads on google and Adsense every day.

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Seems we get different ads:

From 2006 until about last summer Google only served me useless ads.

Facebook on the other hand managed to pick a number of ads that were in fact interesting. I have bought through them a couple of times which is quite amazing given that I think I easily spend 100 times more on Google properties or web properties with Google ads.

Somehow Facebook got the idea that I would be into non alcoholic drink mixers. They showed me so many ads for this class of product that I would absolutely never buy. It was like half a year of those irrelevant ads. Facebook advertising is a dumpster fire from my perspective.

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