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Re:After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and k... by tivert on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @11:43AM (#18922339)
> Me too - but I do wonder sometimes if there's a long game involved, where it's more likely to make you recommend it, or give it as a gift. I can't quite see how that would work in practice, but it just seems so utterly stupid otherwise.

I'm going to go with Occam's razor here: the advertisers are not scarily competent but instead typically bumbling and stupid.

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Re:After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and k... by frereubu on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @02:39PM (#18924247)
Or the slightly more prosaic British version: cock-up, not conspiracy. Me too, on balance. But it seems like it should be easy to mark entire categories - particularly large purchases like vacuum cleaners - as "recently bought one of those, try something else."
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