Frank Addante, 36, chief executive of the Rubicon Project, says that 97 percent of American Internet users encounter its electronic ad sales system every month. And most aren’t even aware of it.Credit...Monica Almeida/The New York Times YOU can be sold in seconds. No, wait: make that milliseconds. The odds are that access to you — or at least the online you — is being bought and sold in less than
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