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That would be interesting. One option that might be more practical would be to enable users to buy out the auction with a limit order. Users could say “I’ll pay
by williamscales 6y ago
That would be interesting. One option that might be more practical would be to enable users to buy out the auction with a limit order. Users could say “I’ll pay at most 50 cents to view this ad-free.” Most of the time users who want to avoid ads end up paying a fraction of a cent. Sometimes users pay a little more. And occasionally somebody actually wants to target a user so they offer an actually valuable bid.
- jefftk 6y ago> One option that might be more practical would be to enable users to buy out the auction with a limit order. Google built this, but users turned out not to be interested in it and they discontinued it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor (Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)