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Re:HTTPS Results in 7% Google AdX Revenue Drop by btown on Monday May 30, 2016 @11:39PM (#11804403)
To be fair, this ignores the thousands of software engineers in ad tech.
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Re:HTTPS Results in 7% Google AdX Revenue Drop by GauntletWizard on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:04AM (#11804486)
Having worked in ad tech, I didn't know anybody who wasn't running an adblocker in their primary browser.
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Re:HTTPS Results in 7% Google AdX Revenue Drop by cpeterso on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @01:12AM (#11804731)
I heard that Google had to rename some CSS names on their ad management portal (that understandably had names that began with "ad") to unbreak it when Google customers using adblockers were trying to manage their own ad accounts.
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Re:HTTPS Results in 7% Google AdX Revenue Drop by JBReefer on Monday May 30, 2016 @11:48PM (#11804425)
Whose bread is buttered by dark patterns.
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Re:HTTPS Results in 7% Google AdX Revenue Drop by hueving on Monday May 30, 2016 @11:49PM (#11804431)
Most of those engineers don't care much for privacy so I don't think they are to concerned with https.
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