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		jefftk on Aug 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privac... > Non-personalized ads won't be lucrative enough to fund the web. Non-personalized ads make about half as much money: https://www.blog.google/products/ads/next-steps-transparency... Whether this is enough to fund the web is debatable. (Disclosure: I work for Google on ads, speaking only for myself)

ummonk on Aug 22, 2019 [–]

>Whether this is enough to fund the web is debatable.

Come on man. Are you saying the web wouldn't exist if ads had just happened to be 50% as profitable?

jefftk on Aug 22, 2019 | [–]

I'm not saying that; it's the person I'm replying to who's claiming that non-personalized ads are insufficiently lucrative.

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