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I wondered why that has been happening to me too, all techcrunch URLs redirect to advertising.com/* and then stop (extentions / pihole blocking the domain, I gu

I wondered why that has been happening to me too, all techcrunch URLs redirect to advertising.com/* and then stop (extentions / pihole blocking the domain, I guess). Why would any self-respecting website redirect everyone through a domain called advertising.com on each visit? Who thought that was a great idea?

TavsiE9s 6y ago
IIRC Techcrunch is owned by Verizon Media, same as advertising.com. Probably the overlords mandating tighter integration.
- 2bitencryption 6y ago
  > advertising.com they didn't even put in the effort to obscure their platform even a little bit, huh? not even trying to hide it.
  - asadlionpk 6y ago
    They probably acquired that domain at the time when advertising wasn't an offense.
  - 1propionyl 6y ago
    "advertising.com" sounds a lot better than "surveillance-and-behavior-modification.com". The term "advertising" has become a euphemism for a much more insidious group of activities which, as it turns out, are useful for advertisement (among other things).