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How is Google Contributor working? I could use it with an US credit card (even though I live in Brazil), but I am still very afraid of enabling it, disabling my
by aylons 11y ago
How is Google Contributor working? I could use it with an US credit card (even though I live in Brazil), but I am still very afraid of enabling it, disabling my uBlock for Google, being tracked and continuing to see most ads, specially the most obnoxious ones.
However, I believe the idea to be a very good one. If Google guaranteed no ads at all, on their site or in other site, I would compromise giving them this tracking, as the their interests on my personal data interests would likely change if the commercial part of the deal is out of the table. However, this demands no adverts at all, and no selling of personal information at all. Hard to see Google going for it.
- Klathmon 11y agoWhile Google Contributor is a great first step (currently i'm using it with a $7 a month contribution), it doesn't really help that much. It only applies to adsense, and they already have pretty strict rules on ads that make them pretty painless (only 3 per page on desktop, 2 per page on mobile, and some pretty strict guidelines on where they can be placed and how they can be shown). Still, i see the "Thanks for being a contributor" pretty frequently, and the ability to not only see an overview of where and how much of my money is going places, but also to "disable" certain sites from getting any of my contributor money is exactly what i've been wanting for a long time. So this won't help any websites which already use "excessive" ads as they aren't (or shouldn't be) using adsense, but instead are using more invasive networks.