Rarely, or by grave mistake would an advertiser continue to message you AFTER you've made a purchase
Remarketing is cheap and effective. Most don't whine after they see an ad when they take a piss in a bathroom at a restaurant that was plastered with an ad on the back of the door but clearly they're bothered so immensely online...dumb. Actually the crapper ad was so ineffective you didn't even notice. Additionally from a marketers perspective, the online ad was a fraction of the cost to place and produce.
I'm certain many don't notice, but often people will have seen an ad and then searched the the message/offer/call to action a little while later because it was indeed relevant. I genuinely don't understand why everyone gets so up in arms. Its anonymous ffs, and it shows you messgaes that are meant to be relevant-- you might find on occasion you DO give a shit that the day before you did a search for a tent and the next day you see an ad for MEC and an online clearance sale.The GAM implements a pay wall and everyone goes apeshit. Instead of relavant targeted ads, I wonder how many people would be comfortable paying for more subscriptions services for content. Likely not many. So calmalama down.
Oerets, you'd really be that bloody offended if you saw an ad for a jeweler that was on your short list that happened to be having a sale or some other incentive that would benefit you and showed you an ad while you were comparison shopping or looking for a store location online?
All you have to do is clear your cache people.
A couple of things of note, for example I recently returned from Vegas, spent a crap tonne on many different things and none of it was because of targeted ad's, they started popping up after I posted some questions about restaurants in Vegas, for about 3 weeks after the tribe ad banner was vegas related and about another week after I returned.
Now, I'm looking to go away again and have been checking itravel, sunwing and redtag. all three are showing in the banners on this page. I got no problem with that except these banners are saying they have deals and when I go check them out they are the same prices I've been watching for the past 2 weeks so there really is no deal to be had.
Furthermore, I take exception to the fact that advertisers feel they they can now directly advertise without me complying to being solicited. Just because I surf the internet doesn't mean I want to be bombarded with ads just because of where I surf, it's akin to telemarketing yet there are no rules.
Lastly who pays for the extra bandwidth the ad's use? oh yeah I do and it reduces my monthly quota to use for productive things.
To me it's nothing more than lazy marketing, while I'm sure it brings in some revenue, I question the relationship to the targeted marketing aspect vs word of mouth as in my example my hotel decisions are made based on trip advisor and others experiecnes not on which banner I see at the top of the page.
for the record I do use Adblock and have for years but it's odd for marketers to force people to steps to avoid advertising and suggest it as a solution.