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Made-for-Advertising Site

Also: MFA

A website created primarily to generate ad revenue from arbitraged traffic rather than to serve readers: dense ad loads, auto-refreshing slots, paid traffic in, programmatic revenue out. The ANA's 2023 programmatic transparency study found roughly a fifth of open-web impressions ran on MFA sites. Exclusion of MFA inventory is now a standard verification setting and inclusion-list rationale.

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