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> Lastly, we hate tracking. I can't overstate that. They kill profiling we kill ad blocking. Simple as that. As a nerdy guy, I'd much rather see video game ads
by cheald 11y ago
> Lastly, we hate tracking. I can't overstate that. They kill profiling we kill ad blocking. Simple as that.
As a nerdy guy, I'd much rather see video game ads than tampon ads. I get the ideological argument against targeted advertising, but the practical arguments for it are pretty compelling, too.
- eli173 11y agoYou don't need to be tracked for this to happen though. If ad networks placed video game-related ads on video game-related websites and tampon-related ads on tampon-related websites, then users of both sites would get ad content relevant to their interests.
- cheald 11y agoConsider contexts like news websites, though, with broadly-applicable audiences. Specialty or niche sites do just fine with site-derived advertising targets. Other things do much less well. There's also the fact that targeted ads result in better CPMs for publishers (since they'll result in better returns-per-view for advertisers), which means that they don't have to deploy as many of them to meet revenue expectations.