smoyer 3 days ago

We need to make ads cost more than they are worth - here's one small way (what are others?): https://adnauseam.io/

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  • Incipient 3 days ago

    Haha that's brilliant. Does it actually 'work'? I expect there is more to recording ads than simply a click?

    Also is this somewhat not just lining Google's/ad networks pockets? They won't care about even a large-ish number of people using this add on.

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    • 0_gravitas 3 days ago

      So, this works only for a subset of ads, specifically, ads that are CPC (cost-per-click) (sometimes called CPL -> cost-per-link), this wouldn't work for CPA campaigns (cost-per-action), which only pay out when a sign up or some other arbitrary action is performed by the user.

      The larger adtech companies will have some form of bot-activity-detection, _but_ plenty will let it all just slip on by. (I've personally written a Babashka script at $job that checks performance of our publishers, and flags any fraudulent-seeming activity)

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    • smoyer 2 days ago

      Somewhat ... But it's not just about costing the advertised money but also obfuscates my actual interests with lots of noise.

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brookst 3 days ago

Let’s also not ruin every discussion with speculation about how someone will eventually ruin everything with ads.

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chii 3 days ago

when there's a need to make money, but there's noone who wants to pay (but they want to use the service), then it naturally falls onto being ad-driven.

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  • louthy 3 days ago

    > no one wants to pay

    Fewer people went to pay. That’s the crux. Companies wanting mass market penetration, rather than just accept the natural size of the market.

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  • tshaddox 3 days ago

    Turns out that it doesn’t matter whether people want to pay. Many paid services also include advertising.

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