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pocksuppet • yesterday at 4:06 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Even if McDonalds could tell Google not to show the ad to vegetarians, they have no way to verify Google isn't.


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wongarsu • yesterday at 5:19 PM

At the scale of a McDonalds ad campaign that seems easy to measure: go to the nearest Target parking lot and ask as many people as you can two questions: "are you vegetarian" and "did you see {description of ad here}". Then compare how which percentage of vegetarians saw the ad compared to the percentage of non-vegetarians saw the ad. There are even companies specialized in market research that will do this in a more representative and statistically rigorous way

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derektank • yesterday at 6:00 PM

Doesn’t Google earn more from McDonalds if Google provides McDonalds with a higher click through rate? If you’re providing a high click through rate, you’ve probably done the due diligence to screen vegetarians already

mapcars • yesterday at 4:16 PM

Can't they ask claude to create account do some relevant searches and then check if ad is shown?

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