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by eivarv 1812 days ago
Maybe not, but you could show it to people whose context reveal that they might be interested – e.g. searching for "IDE" or "Elixir", reading about developer tools, etc.

This is known as contextual advertising.

Surveillance is not essential to internet advertising – in fact neither ROI, effectiveness or perceived relevance (when compared to all alternatives, including contextual advertising) has never been proven.