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Well the idea is stupid and makes no sense but > How is this any easier or more effective than just having a website that hosts its own advertising assets adv

• lucasyvas 3y ago
  Well they can't have it both ways. They can either play wackamole with consumers or their customers.
• lelanthran 3y ago
  > advertisers REALLY don't want you to do that because it's far too easy to cheat. I expect that they are already cheating as much as possible to convince their customers to continue paying for advertising that has a negligible effect on the bottom line. Adtech and PR firms would have you believe that it is impossible to sell a product or service online without first paying them $10k/m. It's also why google search is so awful - if they could get you the information you were looking for they are sidelining their customers, so their search has to, by design, be limited so that their customers are more prominent in the search results than non-customers. Note: I'm not saying that this is by design; they could get to this stable equilibrium simply by each isolated team within search, advertising, etc aggressively pursuing its own metrics.