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lokaryesterday at 4:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

Ads are extremely computationally cheap


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victorbjorklundtoday at 7:14 AM

But what is the benefit? And I’m pretty sure there is more than 1 single CPU in the world dedicated to running ads.

cvwrightyesterday at 6:19 PM

But mining all the tracking data in order to show profitable targeted ads is extremely intensive. That’s what kicked off the era of “big data” 15-20 years ago.

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DonHopkinsyesterday at 7:58 PM

But making good people work on ads instead of something useful has an enormous cost to society.