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by esprehn 1304 days ago
Both those things can be true. If many of the top advertisers pulled their ads then they could be going out to the long tail and showing a larger number of lower value ads to compensate.

It's also possible you're in an A/B test to show a different ad volume.

In general sample size of 1 for ads (or feed ranking) is hard to reason about.