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0 pointsRaed6674y ago0 comments

A lot of websites make parts of their revenue from ads. This would be almost impossible for all of them.

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Webshites [sic] that include multiple pop-ups, privacy violations, and other nastiness that get in the way of me reading the text on the page ought to go bankrupt.

They provide a public dis-service and the world is better off without them.

Yes, there needs to me a new business model for monetising content.

EtienneK4y ago

Agreed. We need to fix the web's default business model to something that does not require people to be tracked all the time.

ajdegol4y ago

If we fix that and crypto we are up to web 4.0 ...

jokethrowaway4y ago

Why? If that gets me free stuff I'm fine with being tracked.

Why don't we let users decide instead of letting a vocal minority dictate laws that ruin everyone's browsing experience?

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bosie4y ago

I don't get why people like you complain. Just do not read those websites. Do not support them actively like you do now...

mysterydip4y ago

Websites had ads before analytics, they just weren't targeted specifically to you. They had to make educated guesses based on the content of their site, in the same way magazines did.

xigoi4y ago

If your site is mostly used with an account, you can easily have targeted ads without cookies.

matsemann4y ago

The law isn't just for cookies, though. It's for consent for all kinds of tracking/data gathering, of which cookies is only one means to do that.

gherkinnn4y ago

Project Nera. Whoops.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974798

barneygale4y ago

Serving ads doesn't require cookies

Puts4y ago

Exactly. And it's also frankly absurd we've been accustomed to the idea of ad networks autonomously publishing content on websites. The idea that a serious magazine would have printed an ad that no-one had seen before would have been bizarre. Today however you see this "get rich fast" and "miracle weight loss" ads on otherwise reputable news sites.

alkonaut4y ago

Sure. But they can’t fool people into accepting just because their “business model” relies on it.

dghughes4y ago

Ads are OK but it's the tracking of me which is what I hate. An ad you can ignore but tracking is at the least annoying at the worst feels invasive, dangerous, security implications.

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