Techdirt’s Mike Masnick doesn’t think The New York Times selling its own ads is especially great news for the publisher’s readers. Referring to coverage of the news, he writes:
“What was odd is that the usual crew of people who regularly like to slam Facebook and Google... seemed to celebrate this move as if it was somehow antagonistic to Facebook and Google’s
practices, and ‘more privacy protective’ … yet, again, the NY Times is now doing the same thing that Facebook and Google have done.”
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