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Discussion on: If this happens, will you be loyal or ethical?

 
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Mihail Malo

Sorry, but it's *ad, not add.
And what I meant by "ad" is only the part you see.
Even when loaded in the same iframe as the ad, or even when tracking the external-src image load, I would still address the tracking mechanism separately, as "the tracker".

If you mean that the ad is "evil" because of how the data was obtained?
Well, in a lot of cases it was obtained pretty legitimately. But sure, we should be more aware of how much data we are publishing. Hence why I said:

The issue is the actual data being listened to.