lol a news site started just selling ads themselves instead of using targeted bullshit and made so much more money https://www.wired.com/story/can-killing-cookies-save-journalism/
@kate well huge fucking story, individually making your own contracts with advertisers nets to more than participating in a commodity market for ad space
@kate
> This doesn’t mean that US publishers could abandon microtargeting en masse right now and start raking in more money, however.
*proceeds to unrelatedly ramble about privacy laws*
the privacy laws are not a prerequisite for the fucking revenue increase, what the fuck
@kate even if you subscribe to “look more privacy actually means more money!!!” or something (wish it was true, but no, millions are not spent on violating our privacy for no reason), this point makes no sense
@kate yeah