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One thing: I really hope you don’t plan on making these things wiggle or anything. That’s exactly the sort of obnoxiousness that prompts me to block ads, and I think that would defeat your stated goal of unobtrusiveness here.
Creator here. Tiny ads is my attempt to create a cross site ad network for hackers and side projects. It's more an experiment than a serious business venture. The idea is simple. We place a little ad on each others page with a link back to ones side project. It privacy respecting (no user tracking) and will work in the beginning by me judging which project to include into the ad network. I hope to create a positive s…
What software do you use to store impressions
After experimenting with datalog and mongo I settled with postgres. It's flexible enough for most situations.
Creator here. Tiny ads is my attempt to create a cross site ad network for hackers and side projects. It's more an experiment than a serious business venture. The idea is simple. We place a little ad on each others page with a link back to ones side project. It privacy respecting (no user tracking) and will work in the beginning by me judging which project to include into the ad network. I hope to create a positive s…
Getting a 404 after adding the script tag to my page, just to confirm this is the expected behaviour for now?
Only ads with the script tag will be included to the ad network.
Do the ads wobble like that live?
I really like this idea, and I’m someone who hates disrespectful ads. A small, non-animated tile—ideally advertising something I’m interested in—sounds like something I wouldn’t mind seeing. One thing: I really hope you don’t plan on making these things wiggle or anything. That’s exactly the sort of obnoxiousness that prompts me to block ads, and I think that would defeat your stated goal of unobtrusiveness here.
Edit: typo
Nice, super simple process! I've submitted an ad for my side project, rowsandtables.com. Looking forward to seeing how it goes.
Creator here. Tiny ads is my attempt to create a cross site ad network for hackers and side projects. It's more an experiment than a serious business venture. The idea is simple. We place a little ad on each others page with a link back to ones side project. It privacy respecting (no user tracking) and will work in the beginning by me judging which project to include into the ad network. I hope to create a positive s…
A solution to this problem that doesn't take your time is to ask projects to put down a deposit. Bad/spam projects don't get the deposit back. https://repowcha.com solves this.
Pretty cool idea! We did something similar when we launched ads on Read the Docs, which we call Community Ads: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advertising/ethical-ad... Basically, we show ads for OSS projects & conferences in the ad spot on a small percentage of our traffic. It's a nice way to give back, and in the past we've shown ads for many Pycon's around the world, the PSF's annual fundraiser, and a bunch…
Love ethical ads! I guess finding OSS through an ad is not the right way.