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by eivarv 1930 days ago
Contexual ads [0]. Alternatively anonymized analytics (i.e. you don't store personal data, IPs, do fingerprinting etc.)

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[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/opinion/facebook-google-p...