It's basically opt-in. The marketing mumbo translation is: "Hey, you! What if I told you you could run your own ads for yourself? Yeah, you can, and it only costs a cent or two an ad."
I mean... okay so that nets the company running the website on which you've run your own ads a share (80, 60, 40%?) of that, so also: "Hey, you! have you ever wanted to pay an internet publisher per article read?! Well now you can!"
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In other news, Google has recently allowed targeted advertisements based on the individual person/e-mail address.
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There's an opt-in method: Contributor
Did you happen to checkout the main product that Google has allowed to target advertisements to individuals?
https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
It's basically opt-in. The marketing mumbo translation is: "Hey, you! What if I told you you could run your own ads for yourself? Yeah, you can, and it only costs a cent or two an ad."
I mean... okay so that nets the company running the website on which you've run your own ads a share (80, 60, 40%?) of that, so also: "Hey, you! have you ever wanted to pay an internet publisher per article read?! Well now you can!"