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Hacker News is kind of ad based. Via the "Company X (YC YYYY) is hiring" posts. How does the community feel about this? Could this type of "native advertising
by mg 4y ago
Hacker News is kind of ad based. Via the "Company X (YC YYYY) is hiring" posts.
How does the community feel about this?
Could this type of "native advertising" be a model for other websites too?
On the one hand, it so much less annoying than a colorful, animated javascript banner loaded from a 3rd party server. On the other hand, I have the feeling these little lines of text get noticed more due to not being filtered by "banner blindness".
- dewey 4y agoThat would mean that these posts are funding the site, which they are not as the site is a marketing tool of a big VC fund. Similar to companies offering free tools on their website to funnel people into their paid services.
- rqtwteye 4y agoI am ok with these ads. They don’t track you and they make sense in this context. I also don’t mind kiteboarding ads on a kiteboarding site. They are actually useful there. What I don’t like is ads that make no sense in the context of the site and are powered by massive data collection.