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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by hsuduebc2 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:00PM (#25923377)
Ads are frustrating but this can lead to even more irrelevant and therefore more frustrating ads.
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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by ComputerGuru on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:05PM (#25923415)
Some of us think being tricked into purchasing things we would easily like but don’t need is worse.
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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by pornel on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:35AM (#25926992)
Ads were fine when they used page content as the context.

"Personalized" ads are partly a scam to devalue publishers: set a tracking cookie when a user is on an expensive-to-advertise-on website, and then serve ads to the very same user when they visit cheap sites. I'm dumbfounded why reputable publishers put up with this.

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Re:Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies by interpol_p on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:49PM (#25924021)
I would rather see irrelevant ads because then I am less likely to purchase something online
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