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And by "spy on users" you mean "show ads that might at least remotely be relevant to the user"? The world is a lot bigger than the US. If there was no targeting

And by "spy on users" you mean "show ads that might at least remotely be relevant to the user"? The world is a lot bigger than the US. If there was no targeting of any kind then half of the ads you'd see would be in languages you can't even understand. Hell, that's the situation right now if you live in certain places in the world and this is with some tracking!

Nursie 6y ago
> If there was no targeting of any kind then half of the ads you'd see would be in languages you can't even understand. Given I have zero interest in seeing ads in the first place, this sounds like a 'you' problem. I'm not trying to be snarky here - this idea that relevant ads are important to users seems to be some sort of industry delusion. Why should I care if the people trying to sell me stuff while I read a news article are less able to target me? The ads are already an attention-demanding annoyance, it hardly matters what they're for.