optimalrob

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by optimalrob 10y ago
We will not - we intend to keep this service free. We hope that some portion of people sign up for our publisher tips, to reward journalists for great content. We take a percentage of they but just as I have publicly said most publishers sh
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by optimalrob 10y ago
Open to it - I am very concerned about explicit ads being targeted to kids, but also sites that are not safe for kids. I think we would more likely look to partner with someone who is expert on the family side and they could utilize our ads
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by optimalrob 10y ago
I like Brave, and it works well! But many people want to keep using their FB/TWTR browsers.
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by optimalrob 10y ago
Thanks for the suggestions!
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by optimalrob 10y ago
Interesting question-> how would he prove that he once had that address? :)
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by optimalrob 10y ago
So we have a separate subscription service at app.optimal.com where you can pay $5.99 a month and we will distribute 70% of that to publishers, entirely transparently. You can also "tip" sites an extra 5c or 25c if you like. There
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by optimalrob 10y ago
We are not selling this information and never will. We built a safari blocker called fewerads that's in the App Store. But we found lots of users wanted to block ads in chrome mobile or inside Twitter or Facebook (to be clear, web ads,
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by optimalrob 10y ago
Read my medium posts (medium.com/@robleathern) to get a sense of what we are doing and why. It's easy to make money in the online ads industry but we are not going to compromise our values to keep this company alive. Too many star
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by optimalrob 10y ago
This is a slight issue, we are looking at ways to make this easier. The reality on the hosts file approach we think is that we can be far more dynamic and help protect users from bad domains as well, but time will tell.
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by optimalrob 10y ago
We'll be adding more info when we prep things for a wider consumer release. We are working to learn as much as we can and are looking forward to everyone's feedback!
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by optimalrob 10y ago
Pihole is awesome! We love what they are doing and if you can't get there on trusting us but want a pure, local network blocking solution I highly recommend this project! On my medium.com/@robleathern page I talk about my experien
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by optimalrob 10y ago
We get all kinds of crazy optimal spam!
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by optimalrob 10y ago
Hi I'm the CEO of Optimal, Rob. We use open source lists of adservers but have had to evolve from those lists since some of them are invalid or overly aggressive. We do not and will never make decisions about what to block based on bei
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by optimalrob 11y ago
Look for ComScore studies on natural born clickers 2008-2009. Surprisingly it seems this click concentration work was never updated.
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Block ads on home devices using a Raspberry Pi(medium.com)
81 points by optimalrob 11y ago|24 comments