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  1. This pastebin contains information regarding 4chan's advertising policies and from quick research I discovered that 4chan is allowing a NYSE traded information company to datamine users in order to sell advertising spots for multinational companies around the world.
  2. If you access the 4chan Advertising Campaign link from "4chan.org/advertise?selfserve&yourcampaigns" while using Ad Block Plus or a similar ad block plugin on your internet browser the following message is displayed on the webpage:
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  4. "You must disable ad blocking/allow ads from *.4chan.org/*, *.4chan-ads.org/*, and *.rubiconproject.com/* in order to view this page."
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  6. I then researched into Rubicon Project and found the following links outlining company details and controversy surrounding them out of a major US news publication.
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  8. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/technology/your-online-attention-bought-in-an-instant-by-advertisers.html?_r=0
  9. "Rubicon is among a handful of technology companies that have quietly developed automated ad sales systems for Web site operators. The bidders are marketers seeking to identify their best prospects and pitch them before they move to the next Web page. It is a form of high-frequency trading that souped-up business of algorithm-loving Wall Streeters. But in this case, the prize is the attention of ordinary people. And it all depends on data-mining to instantly evaluate the audiences available to see those online display ads, the ones that appear on Web sites next to or around content."
  10. "Yet for most of us, real-time bidding is invisible. About 97 percent of American Internet users interact with Rubicon’s system every month, Mr. Addante says, and most of them aren’t aware of it."
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  12. http://rubiconproject.com/whoweare/
  13. "Rubicon Project is a leading technology company automating the buying and selling of advertising. Relentless in its efforts for innovation, Rubicon Project has engineered one of the largest real-time cloud and Big Data computing systems, processing trillions of transactions within milliseconds each month."
  14. "The company’s pioneering technology created a new model for the advertising industry – similar to what NASDAQ did for stock trading. Rubicon Project’s automated advertising platform is used by the world’s leading publishers and applications to transact with top brands around the globe."
  15. "Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Rubicon Project has fourteen offices including New York, San Francisco, Paris, Hamburg, Sydney, London and Tokyo."
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  17. https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Media-Metrix-Ranks-Top-50-US-Desktop-Web-Properties-for-May-2014
  18. Rubicon Project while before being #2, is now the US's #1 advertising exchange entity.
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  20. http://quotes.wsj.com/RUBI
  21. The company trades on the NYSE under "RUBI" and its market cap is over $600 million dollars.
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  23. http://rubiconproject.com/buyer-cloud/
  24. "Buyer Cloud delivers a powerful platform for brands to reach their desired audiences, driving unparalleled brand engagement, customer acquisition, and results."
  25. "Intelligent-Combining rich intent and "audience data" for smarter buying"
  26. "Build Brand Awareness and Find New Customers: Efficiently find your target audience, Full-funnel marketing solutions: Build brand awareness. Acquire new customers, and re-engage existing customers. Leverages the Rubicon Project Intent Marketing data & platform"
  27. "Acquisition: Target individuals using rich intent data that's updated in milliseconds. Our intent and look-alike algorithms find consumers likely to be your next customer. Our acquisition program grows the customer base, driving greater top-line revenue and new-to-file customers.
  28. "Site Retargeting: Leverage the Rubicon Project intent data platform to retarget site visitors with precision. Target visitors using Rubicon Project premium inventory and beyond."
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  30. So as you can see even from the information collected firsthand from Rubicon Project's website, there is completely unbiased and factual proof that 4chan may currently have, and even previously, been allowing an advertising exchange company datamine its users for the purpose of "selling these anonymous users" to multinational companies in order for them, and the ownership of 4chan, to profit off of 4chan's userbase. This is an initial research informational which will be later updated so look for the closest date for the latest update of my findings.
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  32. Date: September 27th, 2015 19:20 UTC
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