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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Programmatic advertising should be forbidden on state level. It is a vector in malvertising and misinformation (and thus is a danger to democracies) and makes the user-experience worse in everything it touches.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

malvertising and misinformation

You pretty much described most ads. What is the difference?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That your "most ads" are programmatic advertising.