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by mike_d 1976 days ago
They would never implement it because there is no valid signal here. The vast majority of users would just thumbs down every ad they see because they believe that will result in less ads.

Go check out the messaging around Ad Choices and how poorly it ended up working.

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Ad Choices also intentionally obscured the access into by making it small and appear to be ad branding rather than a button.
> The vast majority of users would just thumbs down every ad they see because they believe that will result in less ads.

This... just doesn't apply to the scheme described:

>> If I clicked the ad, thumbs up, if not thumbs down. With appropriate weights this can work.