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by DuncanCoffee 661 days ago
Not seeing relevant ads is literally my use case. If you see relevant ads it means at best that somewhere there's a list of all your history and preferences, and at worst your devices are actively listening to you
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Or that the ads are relevant to the content. Slashdot in the early 'noughties had ads from companies selling products of interest to a tech-interested audience. Relevant ads without needing any tracking, like magic (because individual tracking wasn't widespread yet). The issue is with broad-interest sites like regular news, where matching the ads to the content is impractical because the content is extremely general.