Re:uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Face...
by SvenL on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:56AM
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Aren’t ads payed also via „impressions“, like 10k people saw your advertisement so please pay x money?
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Re:uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Face...
by teshaq on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @12:08PM
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Yes, but if a user doesn’t convert the advertiser will see worse performance metrics as cost per click/conversion/install is higher. That isn’t a good long term outcome for the platform, since advertisers can switch their budgets elsewhere (to Google/Youtube)
There’s a delicate balance, more impressions isn’t always a good outcome. Id assume here given the battle against ad blockers that the platforms do believe the aggregate impression mix leads to good performance for advertisers though
Re:uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Face...
by seattle_spring on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @12:08PM
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Partially, yes. Ads are also psychological, and tracked cross-platform. If you see a BMW ad on Facebook, drive by a BMW billboard on the highway, search BMW on Google, and then go buy a BMW, they have ways of fractionally allocating the conversion to the different impressions. It's pretty crazy.
Re:uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Face...
by StilesCrisis on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:24PM
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I always thought last-click attribution was generally used even though partial attribution was technically possible. But my info is a few years stale.