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sdeframond 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How ChatGPT serves ads

Does this mean an adblocker could man-in-the-middle at the browser layer and strip the "single_advertiser_ad_unit" from the server responses ? But the ofc OpenAI would change its system to evade this... and so on

bhagyeshsp 3 months ago [–]

That's an interesting idea. I think ultimately, all AI providers will serve ads with a standard protocol. Something like Universal Commerce Protocol that Google launched a few months ago: https://developers.googleblog.com/under-the-hood-universal-c...

And the browsers will protect the protocol somehow.

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