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All else being the same, I would prefer to see personalized ads over not. It's not worth the incursion of privacy to me, but that said, I'd prefer to see ads for, say, clothes I might wear rather than perfume or prescription medicine.


Do you read articles or visit sites having to do with clothes? What about perfume or meds?

Context adjacent ads have worked fine on TV and in magazines for quite a long time. NYT claimed their ad revenue went up by getting back to that.


No, not really. My only point was that in a vacuum, if I have to see ads, I would prefer to see ads that are relevant to me over seeing ads that are irrelevant to me. I do NOT think that this justifies the invasion of privacy, and I block trackers (and ads in general) whenever possible.




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