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Looks like Taylan has made his decision: he intends to put ads on bg3.wiki

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[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 months ago

The ads are going to be personalized, which at this point seems to be standard practice and necessary for good revenue. This means that, based on other websites you visit which also serve ads, the ad company creates an anonymous profile of your interests, and tries to show you ads you're more likely to be interested in. This is also called "tracking" of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.

Nope. Screw off.

[-] Kraiden@kbin.run 26 points 2 months ago

"tracking" of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.

No, it makes it sound like exactly what it is.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Anonymous, but we can use it to identify everything about you.

[-] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Best case: he has no idea what he's talking about. Worst case: he has and still writes that.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, if he said "tracking is bad but because of the market dominance I have no choice" or whatever I could understand his position. But fuck that.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Google stopped pretending the profiles are anonymous a while ago.

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