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You are likely an outlier. Ad targeting is very good at predicting you IF you fall into a cohort that behaves the same as each other. There's only way to find out the answer to this anyway (export our ad targeting data, share it into an anonymous open source pool, and analyze it)

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An outlier, yes.

Enough of an outlier they can't figure out my gender, and get the country I live in wrong while showing me the ad? That's a pretty dramatic failure.

Honestly I think ad targeting is good at just following me around and showing me what I just looked at. It's been a while since I've even clicked on an ad on purpose.

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