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Akronymustoday at 10:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

My guess: to discriminate whether traffic is from a humam or bot to improve ad delivery metrics.


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modo_mariotoday at 12:23 PM

Most sites are not going to implement this themselves. I think they're in prime position to become a key broker of identity in the same way that a lot of people already log in with their meta or google account to unrelated websites. They become very entrenched and get a ton of data that way.

As more and more people essentially lock themselves in with these identitybrokers tho I imagine it has a very stifling effect on speech tho. Imagine getting banned from those.

moolcooltoday at 12:23 PM

Aren't they incentive to treat bot impressions as real?

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