Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web

Post by soared » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 12:49 PM UTC

lrem wrote: post #45

Leynos wrote: post #34

This doesn't seem that useful to me as only a small number of sites (none of which I visit) support it. Hypothetical question: If I were allowed to bid on my own ad impressions - and if I won an auction, no ad would be shown - how much would it cost a month for me to see no adverts? (I realize this is heavily dependent upon the type of sites that are involved, so I guess take the average HN user as an example).

According to my first search result [1], average CPC is 2.04$ with 1.16% CTR. Say you see 200 pages a day, 2 ads each. You end up at 9.5$/day. https://www.hochmanconsultants.com/cost-of-ppc-advertising/

Post by tytso » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 1:04 PM UTC

zero_shift wrote: post #126

Kostic wrote: post #125

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Enthusiastic individuals. I personally have content which I host on Digital Ocean droplets and which do not generate any kind of revenue for me.

And who pays for the investigative reports? Who pays for the academics who spend their lifetimes researching the field we're reading about? Who pays salaries so the best people can make a living doing what they're truly great at? Who makes enough money to get big and old enough to gain a reputation? Without which, the news is a hail of unsubstantiated bulletins from semianonymous writers, a wilderness of mirrors and…

Post by wehadfun » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 1:09 PM UTC

andy_ppp wrote: post #61

A little concerned, I'm bootstrapping my own version of what they have built, but with a clearer charging model and no need to block Ads IMO. If you care about blocking ads you are already doing it. It'll be launching in literally a week or two... it's very simple to integrate and comes with it's own Wordpress plugin (and instructions to integrate your own CMS). What advice do people have about this per article payme…

Post by nilved » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 1:13 PM UTC

d2kx wrote: post #81

spiderfarmer wrote: post #77

Cancelled already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor Google Contributor was a program run by Google that allowed users in the Google Network of content sites to view the websites without any advertisements that are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google. The program started with prominent websites, like The Onion and Mashable among others, to test this service. After November 2015, the program…

The first iteration was cancelled, this is the new iteration that launched yesterday.

Post by lightbyte » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 1:16 PM UTC

majewsky wrote: post #85

cJ0th wrote: post #53

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Sounds a bit like good 'ol protection money, though ("You don't want some malware on your pc, do you?"[0]). A business classic but not exactly what you'd want from a tech company. [0] http://www.businessinsider.de/android-malware-spreads-using-...

Google is the one ad network I'd expect to at least make an effort to scan for and filter malware-infested ads, for one reason: They're a household name and they have other products that actual consumers use. If there were a headline tomorrow that some random ad network distributed malware onto consumer's computers, everyone would say "never heard of them before" and move on. If the headline were "Google spreads malw…