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I'm not sure why the article segues into talking about SEO content farms. They will continue regardless of whether a publisher chooses to show personalized / in
by ec109685 5y ago
I'm not sure why the article segues into talking about SEO content farms. They will continue regardless of whether a publisher chooses to show personalized / invasive ads or not.
My feeling that the worst ads are not ones that track you, but the generic "outbrain" ads that are pure clickbait. Stop those ads please.
- davidfischer 5y agoSEO content farms definitely aren't going away. In some specific cases, they aren't even that bad. However, they are enabled by the fact that with modern ad tracking you can target the same people there as on a premium site. This causes quality to decrease. Just to give an example, this[1] is how this dynamic affected Recode: > "I asked him if that meant he’d be placing ads on our fledgling site. He said yes, he’d do that for a little while. And then, after the cookies ... helped him to track our desirable audience [he'd] begin removing the ads and placing them on cheaper sites" [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/18/14304276/walt-mossberg-online-ads-bad-business https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/18/14304276/walt-mossberg-on...
- ec109685 5y agoAh, that's a good point.