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Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

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Post by wakatime »

simonmales wrote: post #40
wakatime wrote: post #39

I'm very selective with the external scripts allowed on my websites. Ad networks are notorious for running malicious JavaScript on popular sites like NYTimes[1] and Yahoo[2] home pages. Any plans for an API so sites can receive ad content as JSON and display it without ever executing your external JavaScript? I might consider it for future side projects if I could npm install your client library instead of including…

I used to do ad scheduling 10+ years ago and at least in those times the ads has NOSCRIPT tags. But for it to really work you would need to store a cookie to correctly redirect the user. I like your idea of rendering the ads on the server side, but I would hope they would have super low responsive times. Or at least low timeout on your side.

You can render client side too, the key is no external JavaScript is being trusted to run on the page.

That ofc means the common practice of advertisers pasting a JavaScript snippet, the network doing a review process, then rendering that snippet as an advertisement on some property would not be allowed on this Ad Network.

Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

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Post by pbalau »

wakatime wrote: post #39

I'm very selective with the external scripts allowed on my websites. Ad networks are notorious for running malicious JavaScript on popular sites like NYTimes[1] and Yahoo[2] home pages. Any plans for an API so sites can receive ad content as JSON and display it without ever executing your external JavaScript? I might consider it for future side projects if I could npm install your client library instead of including…

> Any plans for an API so sites can receive ad content as JSON and display it without ever executing your external JavaScript?

That will be a very easy target for faking impressions...

Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

#43

Post by dekervin »

newrotik wrote: post #37

Very nice idea - exactly what I was looking for! I just uploaded my own side project ( http://spot.gifts ) but the image I uploaded is showing as broken (was initially .svg). I tried to upload a .png and delete my previous post but that didn't work. Just thought I'd give you feedback. Keep going!

I experienced the same issue and posted it elswhere on the page. I am writing here just in case the owner catch this thread !

Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

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Post by [deleted] »

pbalau wrote: post #42
wakatime wrote: post #39

I'm very selective with the external scripts allowed on my websites. Ad networks are notorious for running malicious JavaScript on popular sites like NYTimes[1] and Yahoo[2] home pages. Any plans for an API so sites can receive ad content as JSON and display it without ever executing your external JavaScript? I might consider it for future side projects if I could npm install your client library instead of including…

> Any plans for an API so sites can receive ad content as JSON and display it without ever executing your external JavaScript? That will be a very easy target for faking impressions...

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Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

#45

Post by wakatime »

pbalau wrote: post #42
wakatime wrote: post #39

I'm very selective with the external scripts allowed on my websites. Ad networks are notorious for running malicious JavaScript on popular sites like NYTimes[1] and Yahoo[2] home pages. Any plans for an API so sites can receive ad content as JSON and display it without ever executing your external JavaScript? I might consider it for future side projects if I could npm install your client library instead of including…

> Any plans for an API so sites can receive ad content as JSON and display it without ever executing your external JavaScript? That will be a very easy target for faking impressions...

It's the same JavaScript running, just hosted on your domain instead of externally. The JS shouldn't support eval, which is unfortunately a common way to display ads in networks with embedded external scripts. Version updates can go through your review too.

Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

#46

Post by Exuma »

ezzato wrote: post #24
Exuma wrote: post #16

What software do you use to store impressions

I run postgresql in the backend. Right now most of the apps logic is written directly as postgres functions. After experimenting with datalog and mongo I settled with postgres. It's flexible enough for most situations.

Lol gotcha. As someone who runs an ad network... good luck with scaling, RIP

Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

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Post by chromatin »

ezzato wrote: post #10

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…

Nice site -- Good luck! I suggest having a native speaker of English do a once-over of your materials for editing help.

Some copyediting help:

FAQ:

Is Tiny Ads GDPR conform? -> "conformant" (or more naturally, "Does Tiny Ads conform to GDPR?"

No specific version numbers or IP addresses are saves. -> "saved"

How does the blacklisting works? -> "work"

It could distract our user when they want to decide to try us out -> This is a statement not a question ;)

Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

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Post by DanHulton »

dekervin wrote: post #38

I added my project but on the dashboard,I can't see the picture and there is no edit button ?

Yeah, the first time I tried to add, I got an error message along the lines of it not being able to reach the product URL (which is absolutely available). It wiped out my competitor URL list, so when I resubmitted, they were empty.

So I created a second ad that did have the competitor list, it failed again, this time I re-added the competitor list and it seemed to go through.

This all because there was no edit button. But the icing on the cake is that the DELETE button doesn't work, either, so now I just have two ads up there.

I guess we'll see how this goes...?

Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

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Post by tracyhenry »

Exuma wrote: post #46
ezzato wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I run postgresql in the backend. Right now most of the apps logic is written directly as postgres functions. After experimenting with datalog and mongo I settled with postgres. It's flexible enough for most situations.

Lol gotcha. As someone who runs an ad network... good luck with scaling, RIP

> good luck with scaling, RIP

Why? Plenty of options to scale Postgres. What alternatives do you use?

Re: Show HN: Ad Network for Sideprojects

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Post by systematical »

nrjames wrote: post #32
ezzato wrote: post #10

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…

I can't help but think of web rings on Geocities.

I was waiting for this comment.
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