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The problem is that those ads could not be pay-per-click because you need cookies, javascripts and other tricks to combat clickfraud and impression spam. If th

The problem is that those ads could not be pay-per-click because you need cookies, javascripts and other tricks to combat clickfraud and impression spam. If that USA Today site sticks around and adds advertising, it will presumably be low quality inventory like the internet used to be flooded with - casinos, punch the monkey etc.

openIce 8y ago
Ohh I didn't know the EU just outlawed internet ads, TIL I guess. /s I can't stop laughing at the stupidity among americans
- derrikcurran 8y ago
  Is it reasonable to attribute ignorance of laws on another continent with stupidity? Is nobody outside of America ignorant of these laws? Also, how much of the internet technology and content you use and consume was created by Americans? Probably quite a lot. Why so rude?
olivierduval 8y ago
Cookie & javascript aren't forbidden... You can have sensible context-sensitive advertising without problem with GDPR. You just can't target a specific reader using its behaviour
codedokode 8y ago
As I understand, you still can use cookies and IP addresses, but you should not keep them for long time and should not give those data to Google and Facebook. Do you really need to track user across all the Internet (like Google and Facebook do) and keep that data forever, buy and sell them to data brokers? Definitely not. I don't want data about me to be someone's asset. I want an Internet shop to delete data about me as soon as possible after I made a purchase. That's why I want GDPR in my coutry too.
tripzilch 8y ago
No it will be high quality, like an astronomy magazine negotiating a deal with a telescope producing business. The shitty early-web ads were already a result of shady 3rd-party ad networks selling private data. Does a paper magazine need to run unsavoury ads? Because they don't have pay-per-click. They don't even record impressions, they have to negotiate the deal beforehand with the advertiser.

openIce 8y ago

Ohh I didn't know the EU just outlawed internet ads, TIL I guess. /s I can't stop laughing at the stupidity among americans

derrikcurran 8y ago
Is it reasonable to attribute ignorance of laws on another continent with stupidity? Is nobody outside of America ignorant of these laws? Also, how much of the internet technology and content you use and consume was created by Americans? Probably quite a lot. Why so rude?

olivierduval 8y ago

Cookie & javascript aren't forbidden... You can have sensible context-sensitive advertising without problem with GDPR. You just can't target a specific reader using its behaviour

codedokode 8y ago

As I understand, you still can use cookies and IP addresses, but you should not keep them for long time and should not give those data to Google and Facebook. Do you really need to track user across all the Internet (like Google and Facebook do) and keep that data forever, buy and sell them to data brokers? Definitely not. I don't want data about me to be someone's asset. I want an Internet shop to delete data about me as soon as possible after I made a purchase. That's why I want GDPR in my coutry too.

tripzilch 8y ago

No it will be high quality, like an astronomy magazine negotiating a deal with a telescope producing business. The shitty early-web ads were already a result of shady 3rd-party ad networks selling private data. Does a paper magazine need to run unsavoury ads? Because they don't have pay-per-click. They don't even record impressions, they have to negotiate the deal beforehand with the advertiser.