Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by rmc on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:49AM
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Is that economically viable now? Can FB survive on that sort of adverts?
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Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by criddell on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:01AM
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Probably. My medium sized city has several OTA television stations that survive partially on untargeted advertising. Ads shown to the relatively small audience supports the running of a significant amount of equipment including broadcast antennas, satellite uplinks, a helicopter, several vans with lots of radio gear in them, servers, a staff of on air personalities and all the other people required to run the station.
How much infrastructure does Facebook need to serve this city? Facebook will be fine.
Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by w0m on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:09AM
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Though they are still targeted insofar as show X attracts demographic Y so gets Ad Y.
Targeting has become a boogieman I think.
Re:Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
by criddell on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:14AM
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I have no problem with targeting an audience. Afterall, Cosmopolitan attracts a different audience than Guns n Ammo.
It's the individual targeting that has such high costs (in resources and privacy) for an apparently small increment in effectiveness.