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		quotemstr on Aug 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privac... > How is showing advertisements for your product not advertising? Quoting my own post, which you either didn't read or didn't understand: when people say that preventing tracking will kill advertising, they mean that it'll kill personalized advertising. > You don't need to sniff my metaphorical underwear to serve me advertisement Without personalization, ads aren't profitable enough to fund free-to-use web services. > definition of advertisement Nobody is talking about the definition of advertisement.

ziddoap on Aug 22, 2019 [–]

I did read you post, thanks, and I misunderstood your statement that personalized advertising =/= advertising.

>Without personalization, ads aren't profitable enough to fund free-to-use web services.

I'll take a citation with that, please.

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