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by mensetmanusman 1334 days ago
Billboards are per definition targeted ads to people with a car driving on that road in that location.
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By that definition every ad is targeted, unless it's on the front page of reddit or something. Every website has at least some kind of theme to target to
I guess that is true, ads in English are for English speakers, etc.

Which level of targeting does society want is a great question!

Even the front page of Reddit is a pretty specific audience. There are definitely types of ads that I would not want to run on reddit