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I wanted to share some things most people outside the industry don't know, and a tool I built as a way to make the scale of it visible.When you visit a site like NYTimes, your browser fires off 30-80 ad requests before the page even finishes loading. Each request broadcasts your device type, screen size, approximate location, browsing context, and a bunch of behavioral signals to dozens of ad exchanges simultaneously. This happens in under 200 milliseconds. Advertisers bid on you in real time before you've read a single headline.But it goes beyond your browser. Walk past a digital billboard in a mall or on a highway and your device's mobile advertising ID can be picked up through location da

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