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don't want to be tracked for ads, how do you propose things work?

The way they've worked for the last 400 years. The ads are tailored to the content, not the individual reader.

>>reaper+(OP)
There have been personalised sales channels for much longer than 400 years. But they were human sales people, and now that process is automated.

>>reaper+(OP)
Car dealerships send direct mail post cards to you if you've bought from them before. Seems like individual retargeting to me.

If you've every made the buying decisions for an organization, you've been targeted individually before. Through digital economies of scale, it's less expensive to do with consumers now and allows for publishers to get paid to generate content at the same time.

>>minsc_+PZ
> If you've every made the buying decisions for an organization, you've been targeted individually before.

Mellanox seems to think I'll drop 50k on NICs again, and I need to be reminded that last time I bought from them. It's been 11 years since.