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Re:Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to... by oytis on Sunday September 28, 2025 @11:53AM (#45405266)
It's literally how ads were done before the era of social media. Then someone came up with idea that people are annoyed with ads because they are not personalised enough
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Re:Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to... by labcomputer on Sunday September 28, 2025 @12:56PM (#45405888)
> Then someone came up with idea that people are annoyed with ads because they are not personalised enough

No, that was just the public justification so the public wouldn't think they're so creepy. The actual reason is that they work better.

There's an old saying in the ad biz: "I know I'm wasting half my advertising budget. I just don't know which half."

The point of personalized ads is to cut the wasted half.

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