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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's weird because there's lots of studies showing that tracking users' interests isn't even that much more effective than targeting based on the page content.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

That’s interesting. Got a source?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Efficacy man not always translate to ad sales.

When you're selling your product and school and society have told you that you need to know your demographic, when you get to that ad manager page, you want to see your ad only being paid for on that demographic.