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Why can't the site just show ads directly from their domain? It'd be hard to block ads without blocking content then.

Many websites used to just run ads that were directly negotiated and paid for by the company. eg: Plenty of Fish used to do that and they sold for $575M .



I don't get it either, but thankfully most don't. We had to create CSP basically to tame the thousands of third-party marketing scripts, it seems...




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