Targeted Advertising
Discussions center on targeted advertising practices, particularly on Facebook, including how ad targeting works, its precision to individuals or demographics, privacy concerns, and alternatives like contextual targeting.
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Why they can't just use ads without the targeting...
For targeting advertisements? Absolutely.
you're worried about ad targeting?
Same story as with "targeted advertising"
Hold on, I thought it was not possible to target ads to specific individuals... can one do that now??
Ads would be not as perfectly targeted as they are now?
When doing targeted ads for example.
Why can't they target the ad to content instead of to people?
"you can target ads by demographic" is table stakes
how is that related to targeted ads?