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Re:BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising P... by anonymousab on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:37AM (#9402242)
>and the entire industry is doing it's best to fight back against ad fraud

This includes fighting back against the tracking of users across multiple sites, right? That's one of the more direct ways that people categorize 'good' and 'bad' ad networks.

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Re:BuzzFeed Says Posts Were Deleted Because of Advertising P... by manigandham on Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:58AM (#9402281)
Tracking is necessary to show you better ads and is also anonymized. Most networks don't track anything about you but rather general things you might be interested in. Visiting a travel site might put you in the "interested in travel" bucket for about 30 days but that's it.

The social networks and Google know far more about you then the other ad companies.

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