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by throwaway_sb666
1546 days ago
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> I was just asserting out that a law that banned spyware-based advertising would harm the current website ecomomy which is largely based around spyware. I think that largely, the website economy is based around advertising. I honestly doubt the advertising-centered business model would disappear even if large-scale tracking did. Would it be less targeted and less efficient on a micro-level - yes probably. But less abusive advertising would also have upsides for website owners: Privacy conscious people are increasingly blocking all ads, losing them eyeballs. Privacy friendly ads may be given a pass. Right now it's mostly impossible for privacy-conscious people to support a website the like by looking at their ads. The adtech industry is to blame for this for data-raping people. Website owners would benefit from a sustainable advertising model, where users don't have to make the choice between not contributing financially, vs sacrificing their privacy to data leeches. All the websites crying over ad-blockers would instead be forced to use legal ad networks that don't rely on illegal tracking, and people might again be willing to look at ads for content. Brave is an interesting take, but I think the more optimal solution is to just ban the practice of tracking and shadow-profile building. Problem solved, and I don't need to encourage people to install ad-blockers anymore. |
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I remember reading not too long ago that tracking did not increase profits! I find that hard to believe because once the tracking gets good enough, they actually start showing me ads for things I actually might want to buy! (Imagine that!) In my experience, Facebook's ads (at least on Instagram) show me really cool things, while Google (who should know way more about me) shows me complete garbage on all its platforms (YouTube being worst of all).
Re: less abusive advertising
I'm considering making some (hopefully!) profitable web games but I'm averse to putting ads on them. After giving it some thought I realized my main objection wasn't aesthetics / UX (though that is certainly a concern when it comes to "art" -- I want my games to be beautiful and ads sort of kill the vibe there) -- my main concern was actually running strange 3rd party fingerprinting / zombie-tracker / god-knows-what. If it was just a clearly labeled affiliate link, eg. <a><img>, that would do away with most of my concerns! (And simplify my GDPR compliance by just.. not storing anything.. and eliminate the need for those horrible banners :)
In general I'm averse to government regulations, but this might be a rare case where the alternative (rampant spying) is worse... After that, all that remains is to get the governments to ban themselves from spying too ;)