• morto@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Are there any information available on how poisoning data affects google? I mean, they might not be able to build real data on you, but they might still be able to profit from the ads you’re loading in background

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      4 days ago

      But then the ads become more useless to advertisers if engagement does not lead to increased revenue

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        But do we have any evidence of that, or is it just speculation? My guess is that it wouldn’t make difference unless a huge percentage of people did it. Otherwise, just more traffic and money for google

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          Don’t think we will. However we do see YT combatting adblockers so movements probably work. How else to get to a bigger percentage other than e.g. post here?

          It’s more money to Google but it’s less money for advertisers