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Good. I'm done being nice to advertisers. They are actively poisoning the internet in more ways than one. They had their chance to work out better ways to adv
by 1propionyl 10y ago
Good. I'm done being nice to advertisers.
They are actively poisoning the internet in more ways than one.
They had their chance to work out better ways to advertise, and they instead redoubled assaults on attention.
This is getting installed on all of my browsers on all of my PCs. If your startup is advertising based, find a different model, or do without my business. I have no obligation to help you fund yourself or use your product if I find the monetization model insidious.
- gfody 10y agoclicking all the advertisers links seems like an awfully nice thing to do for them, assuming they're paid per click
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIt may seem nice at the beginning, but as you saturate the service with fake clicks, the PPC value will drop to near-zero.
- harigov 10y agoAssuming they don't know how to separate fake clicks, which can be done within a reasonable level of accuracy. It ends up being a war between digital ad agencies and the users. I can see who has the most motivation here and therefore higher chances of winning.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoTangential, but makes me think: could all those happy campers who like to DDoS GitHub and Freenode in their spare time target an ad bidding node instead? I'd love to see that happen. Do it for teh good old-school lulz.
- Thimothy 10y agoHum... I just thought that we rarely see here a tech showdown from ad companies, or employees (It might be because they'd be bullied to hell), for what we know they could have the most impressive anti-DDoS tech in the world.
- tomc1985 10y agoSome keywords are so competitive that they have PPC rates that are close to $100 PER CLICK For example, anything related to pyramid schemes like Xango, Avon, etc. Keyword space is SUPER competitive for "indenependent distributors" and so their PPC rates are through the roof
- TeMPOraL 10y agoMLMs seem like one of the best target for indiscriminate application of AdNauseam, for more than one reason.
- elementalest 10y agoWell it would be nice if you could whitelist sites you think are worth the clicks. So, sites you like get a lot more click revenue, because you clicked every add. While the desired effect of diluting PPC would be reduced, you wouldn't be giving revenue to sites that you don't think are worth it.
- redner 10y agoagred 100%
- eli 10y agoHow do you feel about paywalls?
- belorn 10y agoPaywalls has a very drastic effect on companies that depend on their articles and videos to get shared on social networks and news aggregates. If they wall in their content then they will also only reach people within that wall. If they are small enough, niche enough, or entrenched enough, then it sometimes seems to work for a limited time. Personally I don't find it a major threat.
- wdr1 10y agoThe problem is you're viewing advertisers as a monolith.
- floopidydoopidy 10y agoWhat I'd really like is something that uses stylometry to track astroturfer comments, shills, fake news authors, advertisements parading as news, and PR campaigns, etc. Then just have those articles identified on places like Hacker News, Reddit, etc. Optional to block them if you want. Keep a list of identified writers/writer 'styles' that are penned by fraudsters. Like easy-list is for ads. That'd be the only way to clean up to the net. For a while at least.
- forgetsusername 10y agoThe problem is the subjectivity of half the items on your list.