Well, exactly. Hence my reaction above.
Yeah, I’d be good with that as well.
A great question, but paywalls will probably need to be in place if the content requires that much of a revenue stream. The days of serving content with ad revenue are officially over. Bad actors ruined it with malware and hacks. There is no going back. Even on a corporate level, we’re enacting straight blocking of a lot of content that is ad driven. Good luck ever restoring any faith in that as a method.
Baking the ads into the content is a possibility, however (videos with built in ads, etc.)
If I can’t watch a video without ads I don’t watch the video.
I’m just a tiny bit curious about this: do they pay for showing the ad, or only if you click? Or is it scammers so they were never going to pay the ad service anyway?
Which adblockers do you all use? I’m scared to death of running plugins.
It’ll be good to know which can be trusted.
The code runs right when the ad shows up on your screen.
Ublock origin is my jam!
Thanks! Trying it out.
No problem. It really blocks everything, but it’s pretty easy to unblock specific websites that you know are good.
uBlock Origin is the bee’s knees and current king of the mountain. Every few years, the developer of the current best-of plugin will either quit in tired frustration or sell out and let advertisers slip through for pay, so you do have to kinda keep an eye out on relevant communities/websites to know when to jump ship, sadly
On the phone, I’m using Duck Duck Go browser and they nice thing is that they also give a score on each website base on how many trackers they have sent to monitor you.
My confusion is how they make more from mining than it costs to run the ad.
If it’s a pay-per-impression ad, the ad rate would probably be, uh, exceedingly low. I dunno if “low enough to be less than amount of hashing done by an average viewer in 30 seconds would provide in value,” but I’m guessing if these ads continue to proliferate that someone must have figured out the math on em to make it worthwhile!
There’s that HQ quiz app that I think is doing mining stuff in the background. My phone loses about a percent of battery every 30 seconds. More likely my phone and the app code suck.
But 1 million users connected on average 10 minutes per game with 3 games a day giving about $2,500 in payout. I wonder if the math works.
I feel that way, but being honest, if baked in ads were the way to get something I couldn’t see otherwise, I’d sit through them. Case in point, A Handmaid’s Tale. I don’t have the full on ad free Hulu account. I just have the one that requires me to watch the commercials. It’s an okay trade, since my other options are to either pay more, or not see it at all.
I can tell you though, I would heartily sign on to a baked-in-advertisement version of sports streaming. There are very few legit sources for some sports on streaming, and I would trade ads for that any day of the week, since a lot of sports are designed around breaks in game where advertising happens anyway.
I grew up watching TV with commercials in it so I don’t object to preroll ads in theory. The problem is usually in implementation, whether the loading gets bogged up or they are too long relative to the length of the content they precede.
But, say, a skippable-after-5-seconds ad before a reasonable-length item on Youtube? Fine with me.
It’s nice to see that Bitcoin brings out the greed and stupidity of people all over the world.
That is insane. Wow, I wouldn’t want to be the person that did that here, and we’d only be facing federal prison. Imagine where this lands you living in Russia!
So that makes me wonder how long the system was open to the internet and how many hackers were able to gain access during that time. Given that the system was supposed to always be closed, I bet security on it was fairly basic and/or unpatched.
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?