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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 89 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I feel like contextual ads, where you serve ads based on the surrounding content instead of who the individual user is would be about as effective and tremendously less expensive, complicated, and invasive.

Run football ads on football websites. Run music ads on music websites. That's how it works in TV, radio, and so on and has for years.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I remember this being the norm 15-20 years ago.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Yes. Those are the ones that made web ads revolutionary and replaced all of the ad industry. Those are the ones that gave all the clear results.

And targeted ads have been highly related to fraud since the beginning.

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