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    Advertisers can determine which pages their ad is being served on. It is common industry practice for advertisers to have visibility into the pages that their ads are running on to monitor their ad spending. However, they don’t receive any personal information (such as username, profile link, contact info, etc). Commented Jan 10, 2024 at 15:11
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    Thank you for highlighting that quote from the profile settings preferences page. I have asked our legal team to look into this to make sure the language used accurately reflects what happens on the back end. Commented Jan 10, 2024 at 15:11
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    Opting out of cookie tracking in the way described in the post is the best way to avoid engaging with advertisers in this way. Users who do want to remain opted in can also clear their cookies on their browser to start with a blank slate. Commented Jan 10, 2024 at 15:11
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    @Sasha Thanks. Clearing cookies doesn't affect these pixels or does it? It just changes the settings for whether SE lets advertisers set them in the future? I don't know much about the tech so I might be asking dumb questions :) If the point is to personalize ads for me and these advertisers (who we're not going to know are the ones setting these pixels) know both the person associated with that pixel and the page the ad that has the tracker in it is displayed on, they get my SE browsing (in part). How do I tell the advertiser to delete the data they've already collected? Commented Jan 10, 2024 at 16:31
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    I know I'm being a little annoying, esp since I've been opted out for years and this doesn't really affect me. However, I'm a very technical person and I'm having a hard time understanding all of the implications of this change, and the goal of sharing this information is to be transparent (I assume). Targeting pixels as I understand them are cookies the targeted user can't clear, which is why advertisers want them. Just because it's an industry standard to invade people's privacy does not make it OK. Commented Jan 10, 2024 at 16:39