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It's incredible hard to build a ad business around fairness. In 99% of all cases it's going to be a highest bidder thing.
by herbst 11mo ago
It's incredible hard to build a ad business around fairness. In 99% of all cases it's going to be a highest bidder thing.
- Ferret7446 11mo agoIs that not fair?
- herbst 11mo agoFor the advertiser, not the customer. There is never and incident to show the best product instead of the best paying one. This discrepancy is always there for everything we see and get advertised for.
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- bitmasher9 11mo agoThat’s strictly not true, at least for “old media” advertising. Advertisers are selected based on being palatable for the content and the audience. It’s common for content licensing deals to has stipulations about which advertisement is acceptable. Virtually all platforms — even Google Search — has rules about the type of advertisements you see. There are of course laws that prohibit the advertising of certain types of products in certain places. Even if these scams had the money for a full page NYT article, they wouldn’t had gotten it.