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Just a heads up, you might want to look over your site. You've got a unfinished tag in the bottom "user data/p>", and several links don't work such as https://contextcue.com/pricing (After clicking the "start now" button it's linked to)
This should be resolved now. Thank you!
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This should be resolved now. Thank you!
I'm still getting an AccessDenied. Also for https://www.contextcue.com/contact
We have moved most of our support/information resources over to https://support.contextcue.com for now, since we do have limited resources and we would rather be spending time building the network than building contact forms :)
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Hey there, I'm Corey one of the developers at ContextCue. Thanks for the feedback! ContextCue is run by me and 3 other developers out of Indianapolis, IN.
Hmm... If me and 3 designers would start a new project, we would use our original HN accounts to communicate. Put our names on the project and link to our other projects and social media presences. And we would for sure announce it on our Twitter accounts. None of this happened here. Why?
Good to see. I always thought a way to have individually targeted ads but not give up privacy is for the user to indicate what topics they are or are not interested in. An agent could manage an anonymous profile somewhere that provided a identifying token that the user's browser provides in place of a tracking cookie.
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Wait, these are still individually targeted?
In that case, I need to learn a lot more about them before I can be OK with them -- specifically, how it's possible to individually target ads without collecting data about users.
> that provided a identifying token
If that's what it's doing, then I'm out.
Good to see. I always thought a way to have individually targeted ads but not give up privacy is for the user to indicate what topics they are or are not interested in. An agent could manage an anonymous profile somewhere that provided a identifying token that the user's browser provides in place of a tracking cookie.
Good to see. I always thought a way to have individually targeted ads but not give up privacy is for the user to indicate what topics they are or are not interested in. An agent could manage an anonymous profile somewhere that provided a identifying token that the user's browser provides in place of a tracking cookie.
EDIT: The website says these ads are not individually targeted. Hooray!! I'm leaving the rest of this comment for context. ... Wait, these are still individually targeted? In that case, I need to learn a lot more about them before I can be OK with them -- specifically, how it's possible to individually target ads without collecting data about users. > that provided a identifying token If that's what it's doing, then…
How are the ads served? Are you using Javascript or simple images? If it's the former I'm afraid there's no way to trust you (as the JS can change at any time and become malicious).
We use JavaScript to fetch the ads, but the ads themselves are static images. We went with static images for a few reasons. 1) Speed. There's no need to download a bunch of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. 2) Security. No JS in the ads means no bitcoin mining on the ad network [1] 3) Privacy. Since we host all of the images/ads, advertisers can't inject their own tracking code. If the JavaScript to load the ads is a non-bl…
> We use JavaScript to fetch the ads
Sadly, since I keep JS disabled in order to help protect myself from all the bad advertisers out there, depending on JS means that your system would be filtered out too. Collateral damage and all that.
Perhaps you do this, but if not, then you might consider using a noscript element to alert people like me that they might want to allow your script to run.
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We use JavaScript to fetch the ads, but the ads themselves are static images. We went with static images for a few reasons. 1) Speed. There's no need to download a bunch of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. 2) Security. No JS in the ads means no bitcoin mining on the ad network [1] 3) Privacy. Since we host all of the images/ads, advertisers can't inject their own tracking code. If the JavaScript to load the ads is a non-bl…
I love what you're doing here, by the way. This sounds like how advertising should be done. > We use JavaScript to fetch the ads Sadly, since I keep JS disabled in order to help protect myself from all the bad advertisers out there, depending on JS means that your system would be filtered out too. Collateral damage and all that. Perhaps you do this, but if not, then you might consider using a noscript element to aler…
I am the founder of https://CodeFund.app. We are an ethical ad platform that is focused on funding open bloggers, builders and maintainers. We also do not do any tracking of users nor allow 3rd party scripts.
I'd love to connect sometime and see if there's anything we can do to help. We also have a small group that meets each month to discuss ethical ads.