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ocdtrekkie

@res260 @bagder All the ad companies are the ones stripping journalism of money. Google and Facebook both scrape the important bits of the news, and host them on their own site with their own ads, instead of linking people to the sites themselves so the news outlets see the ad revenue. The issue is the ad companies becoming so greedy they are now focused on cutting out the content creators from the deal.

14 July at 23:48 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
Don Marti

@jackyan @ocdtrekkie @res260 @bagder

The tracking is not there to identify the individual (the data doesn't have to be accurate) but to enable getting the highest-priced ad onto the cheapest possible site

Cross-context tracking puts higher value and lower value sites into competition to cut ad rates and drive up the % that goes to platforms—side effect is that much of the ad money ends up going to places that neither the advertiser nor the user would want to support

propublica.org/article/google-

@jackyan @ocdtrekkie @res260 @bagder

The tracking is not there to identify the individual (the data doesn't have to be accurate) but to enable getting the highest-priced ad onto the cheapest possible site

Cross-context tracking puts higher value and lower value sites into competition to cut ad rates and drive up the % that goes to platforms—side effect is that much of the ad money ends up going to places that neither the advertiser nor the user would want to support

15 July at 13:25 | Open on federate.social
Alexander The 1st

@ocdtrekkie @res260 @bagder I'm reminded of how the one change Apple made to how podcasts downloaded affected everyone's ad impressions [ youtu.be/DnktQrpXHrQ?si=BviNaj ].

Hank Green argues that it's good, even if it drastically hurts smaller podcasts, because it's more accurate ad impression numbers...but it means that smaller podcasts all of a sudden aren't meeting their "Ad view goals" immediately upon publishing.

16 July at 7:14 | Open on mstdn.ca
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