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by whazor 1254 days ago
I agree. There is a lot of folklore amongst advertisers. Also, the companies serving the ads, do not care whether the advertisement achieves it's purpose, they only care about the goal they get paid for. Next, there is the rat race between advertisers, outbidding each other on certain users. The house always wins.

Removing PII will hopefully hurt the greedy ad serving companies most. Though I am scared they will find workarounds.