> Text advertisements are cheap, bandwidth-wise. I wonder if they couldn't just send everybody dozens of advertisements, and decide on the client side what to show. Or even, download a dozens of MBs of graphical ads with each app update / the first time you visit the site.
Shh, don't tell everyone about my next project. I think it can be done with images as well sending 5 of them for various demographic groups would be doable and should create enough noise (one tampon ad, a video game ad, an ad for amazon, a mountain dew ad, and a retirement plan ad for example). For those who care not for anonymity, but more for bandwidth they can opt out and only download the ad's they need.
Shh, don't tell everyone about my next project. I think it can be done with images as well sending 5 of them for various demographic groups would be doable and should create enough noise (one tampon ad, a video game ad, an ad for amazon, a mountain dew ad, and a retirement plan ad for example). For those who care not for anonymity, but more for bandwidth they can opt out and only download the ad's they need.