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by hooby 1370 days ago
It doesn't have to be super accurate or super certain, for advertisers to catch a general trend.

Even if the price adjustments lag significantly behind the actual decrease in effectiveness - the loss of effectiveness will still drive down prices.

As for personalized ads - I think the worst is still to come. Right now, most it is just about looking at a person's profile to decide which ad to show to them. But we are getting close to ML being used to actually create individual ads, optimized for each respective viewer.