New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data

Re:New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data by Spooky23 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @11:15AM (#23235754)

Here are the ads I see on business insider:

- Taboola (The supermoon is coming, 17 biggest exercise myths, what is COVID recovery like, Does anyone know if COVID will do away in warm weather)

- Los Angeles drivers are stunned by this new rule for auto insurance. (I live 3000 miles away from LA and have never stepped foot in Southern California.)

- Ron Paul's message for every American.

- The forever spin top, made in Canada (aka we have no ads to sell)

- A background check company (lol)

- MemSQL (probably the only potentially relevant ad)

I would be terrified if my ability to get paid was based on this crap.

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Re:New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:18PM (#23236617)

I see Taboola as a coarse grained sieve, to preselect into different target audiences, based on what sort of trash they click. At least it appeared to me like that when i fiddled with my blocking for testing, and wondered why i ever should click on that crap? Most useless.

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Re:New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data by thejynxed on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:18PM (#23284666)

To be fair, in almost fourty years of being online, I've never been served a relevant ad for anything.

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