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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by reaperducer on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:39PM (#16277769)
It's not Google's fault. It's the people buying the ads who are too lazy or don't know how to do proper targeting.

I've met three people in my life who were employed primarily to place ads on the internet. All three were glorified secretarial drones who fell into the position because nobody else wanted to do it.

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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by rspeer on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:23AM (#16280359)
"Lazy"? It seems to me that the ad ecosystem is incredibly complicated (for example, not even Google understands how malvertising gets on Google's ad network).

Any person who knows how to effectively place Internet ads has such high-status skills that they don't have to actually do it.

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