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Re:The Washington Post is preparing for post-cookie ad targe... by mikeash on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:31PM (#20474577)
It doesn’t much matter to me whether it’s badly targeted or untargeted. At the end of the day the result is the same: they pour all this effort into abusive tracking and then it doesn’t even achieve the result that’s supposed to be the reason they do it.
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Re:The Washington Post is preparing for post-cookie ad targe... by manigandham on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:55PM (#20475840)
It doesn't achieve it because it's not used. They cant control what advertisers do with their campaigns.
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