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AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to

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Would be cool if this differentiated between tracking and non-tracking (old style contextual) ads.

Where do I find non-tracking ad brokers? I know readthedocs.io has its own ethicalads.io ad platform, but they only want developer-focused sites as publishers. What if I have a non-tech site and I want to host some non-tracking ads to offset the bills just a little bit?

Yeah - was searching for a privacy-respecting contextual ad network for one of my side projects (https://lukerissacher.com/battleships), but didn't find much. Most ad networks have jumped fully on the surveillance bandwagon.

This one looks promising, but at the time (about a year ago) wasn't very established: https://contextcue.com/

Thanks for sharing that! At least that's something!

Why? If following a link harms your business model, there is something wrong with your business model. It doesn't bother whether your business model is about tracking or non-tracking users. The idea of paying somebody for putting your ad on their space is old and acceptable, but the idea of paying somebody for the number of clicks an ad generated is stupid. This excellent browser extensions demonstrates why this concept should fail.

To reward traditional and discourage tracking ads - although if Google and the ad networks detect a barrage of clicks from an IP with this plugin it probably goes right on an ignore list anyway.

Re: pay per click model, I don't know. Impressions, clicks, site owner honor system about their traffic numbers, guess there's different ways to do it.

This seems like a bad idea for site owners. It's likely to flag them up as generating suspicious and invalid clicks which could lead to them getting banned from the ad networks. If you don't want ads, block them. But plenty of smaller sites rely on the ad income

Times they are a changing. I guess publishers will have to adopt to the fact they abused the viewer for too long and need a new monetization model.

See, I'd rather developers put their efforts into making a better monetization model than finding new ways to escalate the internet ads arm race.

absolutely agreed!

but some of the folks with the power to change how the net at large works... are heavily entrenched in the advertising market. Google, Microsoft, etc, and they also own the browsers. :(

edit:spelling

> If you don't want ads, block them.

And if they block their site when you block ads, then what? Typically I just leave such site, but not everyone might want to.

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