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It used to be that when you looked at kiteboarding forums or blogs you would see kiteboarding or travel ads. No tracking of individuals needed. I think that’s w
by maxxxxx 7y ago
It used to be that when you looked at kiteboarding forums or blogs you would see kiteboarding or travel ads. No tracking of individuals needed. I think that’s what you are talking about.
Now you see ads for blenders because you bought one or looked at one last week. Ads are not context sensitive anymore.
I would have no problem if HN made some money with advertising for dev tools. It makes sense. Personalized ads are creepy and annoying.
- j-c-hewitt 7y agoThey are still context sensitive, just the retargeting guy is bidding higher so that is what is showing.
- maxxxxx 7y agoI don’t know much about ads but that’s something I have noticed. When online ads started they are actually sometimes useful to me because of context. Now they are totally useless to me. They are just noise.
- yorwba 7y agoHN does have a section for job ads [1], which are exempt from the usual voting mechanism and don't stay on the front page for long. I think that's a good compromise. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
- Scoundreller 7y agoOn the plus side, this means that a website operator of a low-profit topic can still earn a living. When I was blogging a decade ago I would write almost exclusively about finance because it paid the best. With this system, I could write about other topics and still capture some of that finance-context revenue.