> 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

> 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.