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UK petition to ban harvesting of behavioural metadata for ads
(petition.parliament.uk)
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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It's insane that this is even needed. Show me ads for things relevant to the content of the web page and nothing else. If I'm reading about furnace filters, sure, show me an ad for buying furnace filters, I might buy from you, but don't follow me around for 2 weeks shoving furnace filter ads in my face. If I'm not reading about them anymore, I've moved on.
The added benefit of this approach for advertisers would be that you can literally embed the ads in the page, making ad-blockers ineffective. They literally chose the worst method for everyone involved.