> Is there really no way to monetise an audience with ads without collecting their personal info? There sure is: Contextual ads. DuckDuckGo does it, various do

> Is there really no way to monetise an audience with ads without collecting their personal info? There sure is: Contextual ads. DuckDuckGo does it, various documentation sites do it (https://www.ethicalads.io/ https://www.ethicalads.io/), a dutch broadcaster does it (https://archive.ph/Zk4Pv https://archive.ph/Zk4Pv). It's how newspapers used to work and TV channels still do, as well as YouTube sponsorships (and probably many more). It improves the UX over personalized ads because a) you don't have to invade your users' privacy (including asking them for permission to do it, obviously) and b) the ad is actually relevant to the context the user is thinking about, instead of something completely unrelated from some other part of their life (or, more often than not, something completely random).