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by davidfischer 3y ago
Ya, other types of retargeting like this are also likely. The jump from visiting a website to an advertiser does physical mailings isn't a big one (political advertising uses this a lot). Long story short, she was probably retargeted b
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by davidfischer 3y ago
Healthcare providers and insurers in the US are bound by HIPAA privacy rules, but data brokers (mentioned in the article) and the ads industry generally are not. For example, if she used an app in the doctor's waiting room that shared&
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by davidfischer 3y ago
Zillow's estimates are definitely questionable and I don't want to be seen as defending their precision. However, unless you're referring to an actual house addition or something like earthquake retrofitting, most capital imp
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by davidfischer 3y ago
This isn't as crazy an example as you think. People and companies who bought properties before prop tax increases were capped in 1978 are paying almost nothing in property taxes. I live in California but not in the Bay Area in a house
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by davidfischer 4y ago
I work on ads, but not for Google and FWIW, I've only been able to reproduce a few of these malvertising reports. However, I wouldn't be surprised if there were additional targeting parameters on these campaigns. Rather than targe
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by davidfischer 4y ago
Off the shelf privacy and tracking analyzers run against large and small search engines to see what they are doing with your data.
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Privacy Teardown: Search Engines(ethicalads.io)
4 points by davidfischer 4y ago|1 comments
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by davidfischer 4y ago
We're already on the EasyList (a big blocklist) so it should already be blocked.
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by davidfischer 4y ago
Can you give a few more details of what you mean? It's true that Do Not Track (DNT) is not a true standard in terms of implementation and intent and different folks mean different things when setting the DNT flag. However, when buildin
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by davidfischer 4y ago
Ads don't need to track folks to be targeted and effective =).
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by davidfischer 4y ago
I work on EthicalAds, one of the ad networks mentioned in the post. We focus on targeting relevant developer-focused ads to content rather than to individuals. The post is great. My only nitpick is that the author mentions that they think r
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Do the Ads on Your Site Respect Privacy(ethicalads.io)
4 points by davidfischer 5y ago|1 comments
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by davidfischer 5y ago
While there's still a ways to go, NYT specifically is improving here: https://open.nytimes.com/to-serve-better-ads-we-built-our-ow...
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by davidfischer 5y ago
In some ways, "Patreon for good journalism" is Substack's pitch. It has its good and bad aspects but no doubt it's a very different monetization model than the ad-driven model.
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by davidfischer 5y ago
SEO content farms definitely aren't going away. In some specific cases, they aren't even that bad. However, they are enabled by the fact that with modern ad tracking you can target the same people there as on a premium site. This
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by davidfischer 5y ago
We may have to eventually do that. That also might make more sense for handling requests across continents. Every 5 minutes still seems like not frequent enough but presumably the same approach could be used to write every 5-10s. What we ha
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by davidfischer 5y ago
Maybe I didn't run waitress through as full a test as I should have. In my (admittedly shallow) tests, it didn't offer any significant performance benefits over Gunicorn and I stuck with Gunicorn for the simple reason that the res
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by davidfischer 5y ago
I'm not an expert on async views at all but my hunch is it wouldn't do much. I do think async has some pretty interesting applications though on Read the Docs itself in our small proxy that serves docs which are just static files
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by davidfischer 5y ago
I did check out ClickHouse but I haven't gotten a chance to load more real data to give it the full test. It's definitely on the todo.
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by davidfischer 5y ago
Postgres is mostly bored (CPU sub 20% utilized) with 60 write requests per second which is normal peak traffic. Even traffic spikes to 100-120 don't usually change that much. As our ad network grows though, everything has to grow prett
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by davidfischer 5y ago
We've run some tests with PyPy on Read the Docs itself but not for ads. For Sphinx documentation builds, builds took around ~50% of the time. It was especially pronounced on builds with large numbers of doc files (hundreds) and therefo
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Handling 100 Requests per Second with Python and Django(ethicalads.io)
50 points by davidfischer 5y ago|58 comments
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Cookie Changes Coming to Ad Tech(ethicalads.io)
4 points by davidfischer 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidfischer 6y ago
I work at Read the Docs and we're behind EthicalAds (ethicalads.io). Read the Docs has been running ads on our own sites for years and that's how we're funded. We do our own ad sales, we don't run advertiser supplied scr
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by davidfischer 7y ago
The 25 cert limit is pretty annoying. It also applies to Application Load Balancers (ALBs) on AWS as well. At my company, we use Cloudflare's SSL for SaaS offering. It isn't exactly a load balancer per se, but it did allow us to h
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by davidfischer 7y ago
I wrote that "there are some areas where high speed rail makes sense in the US" and I think that answers your question of "why the coasts don't sport high-speed rail". Specifically I cited the lower 48 density, not
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by davidfischer 7y ago
> If you count about 140 mph as high speed train, Finland (pop. density 17/km^2) and Sweden (22/km^2) seem to be doing just fine. Citing the population density of Finland and Sweden as a whole is pretty disingenuous. Those two
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by davidfischer 7y ago
It's a little surprising that population density isn't mentioned as a major factor in this video. While it doesn't explain the overall cost or cost overruns, it is a major factor in whether rail makes economic sense. Here&#x2
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Tips for Getting a Developer Interview(blog.readthedocs.com)
5 points by davidfischer 8y ago|0 comments
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by davidfischer 8y ago
Read the Docs hosts a lot of Python module docs and we ran community ads (meaning free) promoting this survey. There was no mention in our ads of JetBrains - only the PSF. The ads wouldn't have appeared on the Requests docs but it coul

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