Also the amount of bots (including, to a limited amount, private openclaw bots browsing the web) means that ads served are not really delivered to many humans (and said bots are really getting good at bypassing traditional captchas) & that destroys the value proposition of ads. That’s why Meta lobbies so hard for age verification – they want to be able to distinguish humans from bots, as they used to be able to
Also the amount of bots (including, to a limited amount, private openclaw bots browsing the web) means that ads served are not really delivered to many humans (and said bots are really getting good at bypassing traditional captchas) & that destroys the value proposition of ads. That’s why Meta lobbies so hard for age verification – they want to be able to distinguish humans from bots, as they used to be able to