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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by jklinger410 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:06PM (#36975532)
> I remain convinced that lots of ads are poorly or incorrectly targeted with the results that the additional information didn't actually help them and may have even hurt them.

There are certainly poorly targeted ads. Not sure what that has to do with the technology, though.

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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by pasc1878 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:28PM (#36977810)
That is purely the technology doing that bad targeting - humans arn"t saying that as you bought a toilet seat you want to see more adverts for more of them.
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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by jklinger410 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @05:44PM (#36978062)
No, there are a lot of bad and lazy marketers that set up bad targeting.

Some ad tech may be responsible for the bad targeting, depending on your vendor. But there is also ad tech that has scary capabilities that rarely misses.

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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by pasc1878 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:08AM (#36983272)
SO the tech can and does block adverts for toulet seats if you have just bought one?
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