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		jeffbee 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams Yeah, it's wild how poorly the hackernewses understand this. If the ad platform has few signals for targeting, but it does have the available signals of you're using a weird VPN or tor, and a weird user agent on an uncommon platform, then it's just going to assume you're a crypto loser like the other people sharing those traits.

deathanatos 10 days ago [–]

… I'll bite, then. I not only accept cookies in this case, I'm logged in. I get these same cryptocurrency scam ads.

jiggawatts 10 days ago | [–]

The metadata for ads comes from external sources, such as Google AdWords embedded in millions of websites.

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