Brilliant tactic for amplifying shopping boycotts by messing with ad targeting

[jmbar2]

This is pretty danged impressive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1j1tqbi/augment_your_boycotts/

[luvallpeeps]

1. Just watched it!

Freaking brilliant! I love how she warns people about making sure you’re in a safe state if you do it with pregnancy stuff. Shows how well thought out it is.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I like it. That is shrewd. /nt

[hlthe2b]

3. I participated last Friday to send a message--not to cause the kind of ongoing harm that will backfire on US

--not to mention their employees. I could not disagree with you, this woman on the Reddit video and anyone else MORE on this. Sure, I want Trump's policies to boomerang on him--but his tariffs will already do that. I don't want people losing their housing, not able to feed their families and adding to a homeless situation that Trump will NEVER address. An explosion of unemployment will do just that.

Sorry, just NO. I find it angering that this is being celebrated. Send a message. Don't DESTROY.

[jmbar2]

4. Good points - thanks

Advertising algorithms have contributed to the mess we are in, going back to Cambridge Analytica. I like the idea of teaching average people how to disrupt those algorithms.

But needs to be done in a way that doesn't harm innocent bystanders. It's a new arena for activism worth exploring.

[FSogol]

5. She seems to think those algorithms have an ongoing cost to Target. They do not. That cost was spent, they run with

little to no human intervention. Inventories are not triggered until the purchase is made. Why would items be reordered based on an incomplete shopping cart?

[MichMan]

6. I have a lot more things to do with my time than filling up carts with random stuff from websites I don't frequent.