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Only they never seem to quite get it:

Google: here is x dating site,

Me: click, mark as irrelevant.

Google: here is y dating site

Me: irrelevant

Google: z dating site?

Me: nope

Google: lets try an ad for x dating site again then

Me: actually, you got my mail, all my searches for the last 10 years and still you cannot find anything more relevant for a happily married sw engineer?

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Unless happily married SW engineers with your search history whom mark dating sites as irrelevant are great for dating site conversions.

I bet they're using you to try and find differentiating factors between the different dating sites. You've already told them that you're willing to provide useful information about dating sites -- now they're just extracting as much info as possible.

They're extracting right till the moment they aren't - ever again.

You can change the google settings to specifically give you ads about topics you like

https://www.google.com/settings/ads

Ah, the "Choose your Vaselin flavor" option.

Been there, done that.

Somehow Google think dating sites fall under auto repair, gardening, computer hardware or software or a few other categories I am actually interested in.

Or more likely IMO: they don't care.

I think they just have a weak pool of ads to serve. I routinely mark Twitter ads as of no interest to me, and still get virtually nothing I would ever have interest in.

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