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I've never minded reasonable ads, but I don't want tracker ads and cookies. I know people who produce good content deserve at least a chance at making a buck, I
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
I've never minded reasonable ads, but I don't want tracker ads and cookies. I know people who produce good content deserve at least a chance at making a buck, I just don't want to sacrifice my privacy for it though. So serve up ads related to the article content or generic random ads I suppose.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y agoI agree, But advertising agencies which offer advertisements without tracking are negligible because their competition produces more conversion so obviously advertisers flock to them. Services like ethical ads are available only to select large open-source projects as the advertisers target niche audience. Affiliate links when the content isn't exactly a review of the said product/book (to avoid conflict of interest) do work in this context to some extent. But the current referral system is a mess with each product/service tying up with different middlemen or having their own system, arbitrary approval, payment issues, publishers gaming the system etc. I have started to track the need-gap for 'Single referral system for all services' on my problem validation platform[1]. [1] https://needgap.com/problems/274-single-referral-system-for-all-services-marketing-monetization https://needgap.com/problems/274-single-referral-system-for-...
- stjohnswarts 5y agoI agree, I think this is why tracking/cookies that do so should be illegal. Then at least the big guys like google will stop doing it. You'll never stop all of it though.