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contextly The only ones who have enough leverage are the publishers large enough to do almost all direct sales. So like 5 to 10 at most.
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contextly Even highly niche publishers have extra pageviews. Pageviews = infrastructure costs. Gotta monetize em.
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.contextly Control on pub side so bad that even biggest publishers who have control *STILL* don't have enough theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/16/major-sites-new-york-times-bbc-ransomware-malvertising