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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by lotu on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:02PM (#22050143)
There is zero chance that poorer tracking will reduce advertising meaningfully. You can’t track the effectiveness of TV and and radio and newspaper ads, but it’s not like people don’t use them.
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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by r3dk1ng on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:14PM (#22050593)
> can't track the effectiveness of TV, radio, and newspaper ads

Sure you can. "Use check-out code 'newspaper1' to get 5% off any purcahse!" or something.

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