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Ask HN: Non-invasive, GDPR compliant/pop-up free ads for a blog

2 pointsgigatexal4 comments

If in the future (near or distant future, probably distant) my 2-cent thoughts at https://gigatexal.blog becomes a daily/weekly destination for some folks I think the traffic might be worth throwing a few tasteful ads on it to pay myself back for the time I put in.

So I got to thinking and after playing with the Google Ads preview of what ads would look like on my blog I went looking for alternatives. But navigating this space is difficult.

Does anyone have any companies/ideas/solutions that fits the title?

I would like an ad setup to be non-invasive, not make me require to have a GDPR popup so not be cookie based I guess, and not slow down my site too much.

I don't care about compensation rates. If Google pays 10 bucks (hypothetical) per 1k impressions and this goldilocks ads platform I am looking for is paying 2 per 1k I'd be fine with that.

You can tone down Google Ads quite a lot: turn off personalisation, turn off the most intrusive types of ads etc; I think that makes them GDPR compliant and thus I do not run GDPR pop-ups because I do nothing else on my sites to need them, though that may have to change.

And FWIW my current Google RPM is much less than your lower figure...

Hmm which ad types did you choose that were not intrusive? Where was the "turn off personalisation" feature?

If I could make google ads fit the above I would just go with that as it seems like the most straight forward way to go.

re the RPM figure I figure it is. I bet it's pennies. Hence why I am not focusing on monetizing now I don't have the blog traffic to warrant it so I am focusing on writing interesting things first.

I turned off:

  * Anchor ads (overlay formats)
  * A bunch of above the fold stuff on the front page (exclusions)

Under Privacy and Messaging, I:

  * Turned off personalisation under GDPR
  * Selected restricted processing under CPRA

Awesome I’ll check it out.

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