Ad companies refusing to show ads next to the only stories people want to read, and therefore breaking the surveillance advertising business model for online journalism, is a really enjoyable plot twist in an otherwise grim 2020. The tracker becomes the tracked!
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We need to find a way to take this opportunity to put local journalism (which has already been gutted by the online ad racket) on some kind of workable foundation, while removing incentives for the clickbait stuff that prospered off the ad bubble https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/09/coronavirus-us-newspapers-impact …
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I know that content-targeted ads are less lucrative overall, but are they less lucrative of publishers? Don't Google and Facebook take much bigger cuts than the ad networks of yore?
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