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by gujk 5301 days ago
If ads were proxies through he content site, the site would still send your ID to Google to personalize the ad, but you would be unable to block it.
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If ads were proxied through the site, the site would have no way of giving Google the information that would allow them to tell you from Adam. The entire purpose of externally-served advertising is cross-site tracking and correlation.