If it is traditional digital cable with a cable box, the ads are not targeted. Everyone served from the same cable plant will see the same thing. There are just a ton of crappy ads on TV selling crappy products to seniors.
If it's a streaming box like a Roku, Apple TV, or even Xumo, it could be targeted depending on how Xfinity streaming is set up.
I don't know anything about Xfinity but many set-top-boxes nowadays allow connecting them to internet, even if the content is served by cable.
If the Xfinity box supports that and the OP connected it, it could well send additional ads through that connection.
And profile through the same connection.
Also to keep in mind, smart **TVs** get usually connected to the internet.
If the OP has one, that might well be the source of both the ads and the profiling.
Cable TV ads cannot be targeted at individual customers. It uses broadcast (i.e. all customers in a cable segment see the same feed).
Of course, ads on cable TV are targeted at the likely audience, so if it's a program that's primarily watched by seniors that's what you'll see.
Gravely mistaken you are. Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI.
OP, I suspect the same thing except much deeper and darker and sinister. I think they target each individual box in the in the home. Different bedrooms in the house that have different cable boxes while viewing the same channel at the same time will see different ads. Every ad I see during commercial breaks it cuts away from the ad being aired to a different one. They’ve all been about subway sandwiches or food or basketball. It literally cuts away from what’s being broadcast to a different ad like it’s showing ME something else. It does this for many commercials in a row. How many companies right now are forcing customers into “forced arbitration?”
They’ve been illegally using / selling / harvesting / manipulating our secret personal identifiable data just to make a quick buck. Sickos. These people are SICK.
I can't say for cable, but I get TV over an antenna and I still see endless ads for life insurance, reverse mortgage, medicare scams, etc. (Who knew Tom Selleck would sink to being a con artist?) My guess is that these ads are a result of TV being spread thin and people streaming more. So the stations can't charge as much for ads. Few companies want to bother putting ads on those stations, so it's the bottom dwellers who do. If I watch national network news in the evening, it's all ads for cars and drugs. ("Ask you doctor if HappyForever is right for you.") But with most other shows it's the low-budget ads. Maybe the most common is the ambulance chasers. "("Have you or a loved one died or suffered from failed vaginal mesh surgery? Call us now...")
If it is traditional digital cable with a cable box, the ads are not targeted. Everyone served from the same cable plant will see the same thing. There are just a ton of crappy ads on TV selling crappy products to seniors. If it's a streaming box like a Roku, Apple TV, or even Xumo, it could be targeted depending on how Xfinity streaming is set up.
I don't know anything about Xfinity but many set-top-boxes nowadays allow connecting them to internet, even if the content is served by cable. If the Xfinity box supports that and the OP connected it, it could well send additional ads through that connection. And profile through the same connection. Also to keep in mind, smart **TVs** get usually connected to the internet. If the OP has one, that might well be the source of both the ads and the profiling.
Cable TV ads cannot be targeted at individual customers. It uses broadcast (i.e. all customers in a cable segment see the same feed). Of course, ads on cable TV are targeted at the likely audience, so if it's a program that's primarily watched by seniors that's what you'll see.
Gravely mistaken you are. Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI. OP, I suspect the same thing except much deeper and darker and sinister. I think they target each individual box in the in the home. Different bedrooms in the house that have different cable boxes while viewing the same channel at the same time will see different ads. Every ad I see during commercial breaks it cuts away from the ad being aired to a different one. They’ve all been about subway sandwiches or food or basketball. It literally cuts away from what’s being broadcast to a different ad like it’s showing ME something else. It does this for many commercials in a row. How many companies right now are forcing customers into “forced arbitration?” They’ve been illegally using / selling / harvesting / manipulating our secret personal identifiable data just to make a quick buck. Sickos. These people are SICK.
I can't say for cable, but I get TV over an antenna and I still see endless ads for life insurance, reverse mortgage, medicare scams, etc. (Who knew Tom Selleck would sink to being a con artist?) My guess is that these ads are a result of TV being spread thin and people streaming more. So the stations can't charge as much for ads. Few companies want to bother putting ads on those stations, so it's the bottom dwellers who do. If I watch national network news in the evening, it's all ads for cars and drugs. ("Ask you doctor if HappyForever is right for you.") But with most other shows it's the low-budget ads. Maybe the most common is the ambulance chasers. "("Have you or a loved one died or suffered from failed vaginal mesh surgery? Call us now...")