mhoye on Nostr: I strongly suspect, though I have no way to prove, that the specific traffic and ...
I strongly suspect, though I have no way to prove, that the specific traffic and sites impacted when enhanced privacy settings cause a calamitous decline in programmatic revenue are strongly correlated to synthetic traffic generated by AdWords scams, and that the real challenge Google faces is that they cannot publicly admit that some large fraction of their business is actually just money laundering.
https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/15189422 
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