Respectfully, I believe that is not the case.
I’m curious as to how people are having such different experiences. I don’t know enough about the tech aspect of devices, etc… There were big problems a couple of years ago with ads, which were largely resolved. Since then, there have been few reports.
I’ll link this here, because @CC_Jon explains in this post:
Last year @CC_Mike wrote :
We realize that the addition of programmatic advertising over the past few years has provided needed revenue but also degraded our community experience.
To explain the situation, I’ll need to go into a bit of detail about two types advertising available to us:
Traditional—Advertisers contract with CC directly to run their ads. For instance, UChicago pays for an ad that goes in the background of their category:
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It requires us to have people to find opportunities, manage the relationships and implement the actual ad placements. On the plus side, ads are highly relevant and effective. It’s a good business to be in, if there are enough advertising partners to support all the people needed to make it work.
Programmatic—Advertisers contract with a third party platform who finds an audience for their ads using an algorithm. Websites contract with the same third party to sell space for those ads to…