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Re:The “free” economy comes at a cost by kristianc on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:16AM (#15116009)
> i.e if I am on a site reading about the latest hard drive to come out, Show me ads for a NAS or a Computer, etc.

So, it turns out that you completely ignore those adverts because you have banner blindness and you're on the site to read about the latest hard drive, not the one someone is paying to reach you with. If those ads worked, the CPM would be higher and advertisers would invest in those instead. But they don't, so contextual it is.

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Re:The “free” economy comes at a cost by syshum on Monday August 28, 2017 @07:15PM (#15120936)
I dont ever see the ads because I have multiple layers of ad blocking at the network, PC and Browser Level...

if a Ad gets through I spend some time figuring out why then ensuring it is blocked going forward

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