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I'm OK with advertising, but not with tracking. The problem for me is that most advertising is served from a host other than that of the publisher, so tracking can be done by the ad server.

That is, say HN were to publish AdSense. HN's webmaster would add a small snippet of Javascript, that fetches the ad itself from Google's server. That would enable Google to track me.

I am, for the most part, completely cool with ads that are served from the same IP address as the web page I'm looking at.



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Let's say that became a reality, that most ads were served from the site of interest.

Wouldn't the site's back end just send data about the client viewing an ad back to the ad vendor? I would think it would be part of their contract.

I also have no problem with ads per se, but they aren't just ads anymore, ...


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