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IIRC Stackoverflow has ads and thus all the nastiness that comes with them.
by grishka 5y ago
IIRC Stackoverflow has ads and thus all the nastiness that comes with them.
- Vinnl 5y agoNote that ads don't inherently need tracking. DuckDuckGo has ads, but no cookie banner - what ad to show is based purely on what you're searching for (and some other ephemeral data, like your location, I assume).
- maccard 5y agoThird party targeted ads require cookie consent. Untargetted ads that are contextual to stackoverflow would not.
- andreareina 5y agoI don't know the specific implementation of stack exchange/overflow ads, but given the blatant disregard they've shown for the community I'm not expecting they've done the privacy-preserving thing
- nkrisc 5y agoYou don’t need cookies to show ads. Newspapers did it before the internet, no invasive tracking required.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoDear god yes - this is the answer. Display ads aligned to content on the page and thats it.
- reaperducer 5y agoDisplay ads aligned to content on the page and thats it. Which is what Google promised us when it rolled out AdSense. That's why its called "Ad" "Sense" — By crawling your page ahead of time, Google could "sense" what ads were appropriate to match the content. But at some point, Google ditched content matching and went after people matching.
- IshKebab 5y agoStackoverflow has a really strong user-generated ad signal, like Google. Users literally tell them what they're interested in. They don't need tracking.