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I work in advertising. What’s going on with this website? This appears to be a very standard ad arbitrage website, as you often see promoted via Native ads. The
by 55555 4y ago
I work in advertising. What’s going on with this website? This appears to be a very standard ad arbitrage website, as you often see promoted via Native ads. The newsletter has only 5k subs, but it’s possible this is sufficient to farm out —- in effect —- genuine HN submissions via various real users. But you don’t normally see websites like this making the front page of HN regularly, and this website has been on the front page a dozen+ times. It’s probably genuine, but it’s worth looking into whether or not there’s upvote bots involved… just a note for Dang. I love the content too so perhaps real. But I suspect someone is running this site and promoting it here as a business (people seem to like it though, and the ads are bearable).
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- baxtr 4y agoInteresting thought. Although: I don't see any ads on the webpage, which makes it even stranger? Am I missing something? PS: No, I don't have an adblocker - on purpose.
- bombcar 4y agoAre you on a VPN? Some sites/ad networks don’t show ads to VPN users to prevent ad fraud.
- 55555 4y agoThere were Google Ads for me.
- baxtr 4y agoYeah, I am stupid. Turns out I had a blocker running :D Sorry, my bad. There are MANY google ads...
- jrnichols 4y agoI tried it without pi-hole and it was riddled with advertisements. so many it was almost unusable.