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Re:The Advertising Bubble by icebraining on Monday November 16, 2015 @02:32AM (#10573106)
There's no way I can tell Google "display ads in these categories".

Actually, you can: http://www.google.com/settings/ads

Re:The Advertising Bubble by WalterBright on Monday November 16, 2015 @02:37AM (#10573117)
That influences ads served to me. I wanted to influence ads served to readers of my web pages.
Re:The Advertising Bubble by jacquesm on Monday November 16, 2015 @05:12AM (#10573579)
That is called 'publisher optimization', google does not offer much in terms of that today but the buyers of advertising do have a whole raft of tools at their disposal to the point where pranksters have used it to target individuals.