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Owner Jeff Bezos is also pushing the Post to experiment with more user-friendly video ad formats.
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“To recreate it would have been prohibitively expensive for even the most generous philanthropic organization.”
Floodwatch, a new tool from the Office for Creative Research, is hoping it can collect enough data from users to help researchers answer questions around just how users are being targeted by ads online.
“There’s not enough written about how these processes actually take place. Who is writing the checks? What’s in it for them? What are the consequences of all of these for individuals and our way of life?”
On the bright side, “nothing stimulates technological development like war.”
“For now, even though it’s not perfect, advertising is paying the bills and until there is a better solution we’re going to stick with it.”