• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Private ads that make user tracking impossible absolutely benefits users, and the ad industry would be a lot less of a cancerous cesspit if it were the norm.

    It’s certainly been unpopular, but that’s more because most people on Lemmy don’t read past ragebait headlines and assume the worst.

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      2 months ago

      It’s just another source of telemetry for advertisers and won’t stop any of the existing methods of tracking.