Used Firefox for years, Chrome after, now I’ve settled on Opera. Great browser and I appreciate some of the unique features it offers.
That was early 2000s method of gathering user data. We’ve come a long way since then.
In this specific case and with this specific vendor (Microsoft)…
Microsoft owns ChatGPT. ChatGPT is the AI backend for Microsoft Copilot.
Recent versions of Edge integrate with Copilot.
Windows 11 also integrates with Copilot.
MSN is the default homepage and search engine for Edge.
It uses Bing. Bing uses Copilot.
If you are logging into Windows 11 with an email address it is associated with a Microsoft account. This account stores information about your computer and browser activities gathered by Copilot. That information plus what ChatGPT digests from the internet is used to build a tailored user experience.
It knows they play World of Warcraft.
It knows they use the WoW PvP forums.
It knows which forum avatar/character is theirs.
It knows they made recent posts about boosting.
It knows their character has a below average PvP rating.
It knows that around this time of day they log on their PC, play WoW, and read WoW forums.
It knows how much money they are willing to spend on things related to gaming.
With that information, it has determined that they may be a potential customer for vendors in that category.
If they clicked the ad, now it knows they have enough interest to engage.
It will keep presenting ads for this until it determines they are no longer interested.
At that point, it will move on and try to get them engaged with something else, but it just learned 50 things about their personality and behaviors in the process.
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Lol owned.
Also, fun fact, Google ads are really expensive, so you can ding these boosting companies like $5/click while also messing up their ad targeting (if you don’t buy the service).
Financial services/insurance/healthcare/etc ads are like $50-100/click, you can cost a credit card or insurance company you don’t like $1000/day+ very easily
Source: trust me bro.
Source: I have about $250k in adspend between 2016-2022
They will adjust your CPC in the case of mass botfarm clicks (ie, if a shady competitor autoclicks your ads 1000 times - not uncommon), but they don’t for small amounts like this. Nothing I said was remotely inaccurate, you pay per click with Google, not per page impression, and those rates are kind of like an auction where more competitive/higher ticket items are more expensive to advertise. A boosting service would be on the low end of that scale, but I never had any ads with Google for less than $5/click (facebook and other social media sites, yes, their ads are generally quite a bit cheaper)
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So, yeah, source:trust me bro.
It seems like the price of advertising has gone down a bit the last few years, but not dramatically so. My #'s are still in the right ballpark, and if you had an attention span longer than a squirrel, you’d be able to check and confirm that this is how Google ads work very easily…
After looking into current data (Im not selling any products/services online anymore, so don’t keep up with it constantly like I used to), the average CPC across all industries is apparently between $2.50-3/click, but that depends heavily on a number of factors including time of day, how competitive it is, what search terms you’re targeting, the industry itself (as said, this would be lower down on the scale), etc
I don’t even know what you’re arguing here.
“Advertising costs money and those businesses pay per click”
‘wow so basically dude trust me?’
Yes, trust me because I’m absolutely correct and have lived this.
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So I was right. Case closed.
Just out of curiosity, how do you think online advertising works?
Don’t mind him, he disagrees just to argue and googles everything as he goes.
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Not sure tbh. I’m not really interested in pretending I understand something.
You’re just interesting in arguing opposition against things that you don’t understand?
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If you’ve noticed, I haven’t argued with you once. I said your source was “trust me bro” and I was right.
Nobody says “source: trust me bro” when they agree with something
And I could find sources if I was allowed to post links/images here, the amount of sources on this topic is astronomical, this isn’t like some unknown arcane knowledge that the public isn’t privy to
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Astronomical huh? Good to know thanks.
Brother, you are being trolled.
FWIW, I appreciate the information you shared, because I did not know that that’s how that works!
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Google analytics pages are totally magical and you can’t convince me otherwise.
(Advertising through Google is stupid expensive for smaller businesses)
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