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Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by ogre_codes on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:12PM (#19619506)
Advertising doesn't help the advertiser unless it helps you.

This is nonsense. History is littered with cases of advertising abuse and misuse. Everything from literal snake oil salesmen to modern day shysters profiting from selling conspiracy theories and anti-tax bullshit is enabled and propagated by advertising.

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Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by mindcrime on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:12PM (#19620377)
OK, fair enough, I should have specified that I meant outside of the case of obvious fraud (eg, snake-oil).

Also, FYI, I'm not the one who down-voted you. In fact, have an upvote to counter-balance that.

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Re:Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in F... by ogre_codes on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:38PM (#19626386)
I get your point about the potential benefits of targeted advertising, and in an ideal world it's true. Of course in that same ideal world we wouldn't have sleazy non-targeted advertising either. I just see so much abuse of tracking and targeting that the damage far outweighs the benefits.
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