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		celnardur on Aug 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The EU's war on behavioral advertising You don’t need to track people to pay for things with ads. You can advertise based on the surrounding content pretty effectively. It’s what TV channels have done for years. Behavior ads or paywall is a false dichotomy.

bostik on Aug 26, 2023 [–]

And news papers. And a long time ago, that's how Google ads worked too.

Contextually relevant, non-intrusive, respectfully done untargeted advertising is acceptable. Quoting myself from earlier times: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/no-stalking.html

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