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Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by the_snooze on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:21PM (#23875053)
Podcasts should be the gold standard for online advertising. They're perfect for everyone involved: there's no creepy tracking involved, and the ads are appealing because podcast producers tend to know and respect their audience. I never skip podcast ads because they're often entertaining in and of themselves (e.g., Reply All).

I like this sort of "personalization" podcasts do in their ads: with human judgment where the content creators exercise editorial control, not some black box chum box any rando can dump ads into.

Re:New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads by Jommi on Friday July 17, 2020 @06:06PM (#23876493)
They're not perfect for everyone. It's usually a huge blackbox for advertisers who don't know what they are getting until they've dipped 50-100k into it and tracked the resulting conversions later in the funnel.