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Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by cavneb »

thescribbblr wrote: post #31
dguo wrote: post #25

For programming related websites, CodeFund[1] is an option. I tried both Carbon and CodeFund for one of my websites[2], and CodeFund paid out significantly more. CodeFund is also open source and seems committed to desirable principles, like not doing any user tracking through cookies. In a feedback survey, I said that I hope they can one day expand beyond programming websites and become a general alternative to AdSen…

Do codefund pay well?

CodeFund charges a fixed price to advertisers based on geolocation and audience [1]. We pay on average between 65% - 80% of all gross revenue to our publishers.

This month (Oct 2019), we brought in approximately $75K in revenue. Of that, approximately $53k will be paid out to publishers next week.

If you follow our newsletter [2] you can see our MTD stats (including financials) each week.

Unlike the other ad platforms, our mission is to grow and sustain open source projects. We do this through ethical advertising (no cookies, tracking, collecting data, etc).

[1] https://codefund.io/advertiserkit2019q4.pdf

[2] https://us16.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=e95ff716114dbc939f...

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of CodeFund

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by jdorfman »

thescribbblr wrote: post #31
dguo wrote: post #25

For programming related websites, CodeFund[1] is an option. I tried both Carbon and CodeFund for one of my websites[2], and CodeFund paid out significantly more. CodeFund is also open source and seems committed to desirable principles, like not doing any user tracking through cookies. In a feedback survey, I said that I hope they can one day expand beyond programming websites and become a general alternative to AdSen…

Do codefund pay well?

We do. You can check our pricing on our website. You can also email me justin@codefund.io if you have any further questions.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by thescribbblr »

cavneb wrote: post #41
thescribbblr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do codefund pay well?

CodeFund charges a fixed price to advertisers based on geolocation and audience [1]. We pay on average between 65% - 80% of all gross revenue to our publishers. This month (Oct 2019), we brought in approximately $75K in revenue. Of that, approximately $53k will be paid out to publishers next week. If you follow our newsletter [2] you can see our MTD stats (including financials) each week. Unlike the other ad platform…

Awesome! So, how do you guys keep tracks of clicks? When you don't log users data? Also, mind giving an interview for a blog (related to tech and people changing it) that i am thinking to start?

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by winkeltripel »

rwmurrayVT wrote: post #20
seddin wrote: post #5

I too lost my Google Adsense account exactly when I had reached the minimum quantitiy to be able to get a paycheck, they banned me and kept my 100 €, which took me months of doing SEO, writting content, and much more. So what I have been trying lately, is contacting directly clients that might be interested in placing an ad on my website, maybe we need some sort of a new social network for people to sell ad spots on…

Could you sue locally in small claims court?

no. When you signed up to adsense you agreed to binding arbitration using a firm of Google's choice in Mountain View, CA, USA.

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by darkhorn »

seddin wrote: post #5

I too lost my Google Adsense account exactly when I had reached the minimum quantitiy to be able to get a paycheck, they banned me and kept my 100 €, which took me months of doing SEO, writting content, and much more. So what I have been trying lately, is contacting directly clients that might be interested in placing an ad on my website, maybe we need some sort of a new social network for people to sell ad spots on…

Intersting that they have banned you while you didn't force your visitors to click on ads. And here is an app that asks their users to click on ads and is still not banned

https://redd.it/bjl5qs

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by thescribbblr »

darkhorn wrote: post #46
seddin wrote: post #5

I too lost my Google Adsense account exactly when I had reached the minimum quantitiy to be able to get a paycheck, they banned me and kept my 100 €, which took me months of doing SEO, writting content, and much more. So what I have been trying lately, is contacting directly clients that might be interested in placing an ad on my website, maybe we need some sort of a new social network for people to sell ad spots on…

Intersting that they have banned you while you didn't force your visitors to click on ads. And here is an app that asks their users to click on ads and is still not banned https://redd.it/bjl5qs

I need this ad service =p

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by seanwilson »

Carbon Ads (https://www.carbonads.net/) are decent if you've got a developer or tech audience. I've seen them used on CodePen and Smashing Machine I think.

Big positives for me are:

- You can securely include them on your page without having to run third party JavaScript or inject third party HTML. They have an API that just provides a JSON feed of the ads to show (each ad is a heading + description + logo + tracking pixel, no HTML) so you can write your own (non-bloated) JavaScript for displaying them. This approach is good for Chrome extensions too as there you're not allowed to include external JavaScript files.

- This also means you can customise how the ads are displayed so they don't look out of place or bloat your pages. I was surprised they let you do this. My contact there pretty much told me I can make them look however I want (e.g. size, colours, fonts).

I'm using Carbon Ads on this page for example (see just above the first subheading, make sure you have adblock disabled):

https://www.checkbot.io/guide/

Re: Ask HN: Google Adsense Alternative?

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Post by edraferi »

rchaud wrote: post #36

I'm curious to know what kind of solo websites make money from Adsense. Of course giant publications like NYTimes and Buzzfeed do, but they are publications, so are constantly putting out new articles and have tons of staff to do that work. To be honest, every non-media site I've seen Adsense ads on have been fairly low-quality aggregator blogs that cover a wide variety of unrelated topics, have no clear identity/dif…

I’m also very curious about this. I have several ideas for niche websites that I would love to build, but I want them to be sustainable without awful adware
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