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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by accrual »

zenmac wrote: post #206
niutech wrote: post #93

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Not necessarily 10 years ago, you cannot comment on a HN post even from a month ago!

Why is that? Be good to join discussion from the past and bring back some zombie thread? No?

I wanted to add that some zombie/necro posts are useful outside the context of HN.

For example on retro computing boards it makes me so happy when someone bumps a 5 year old thread to share new details, benchmarks, etc. about some card or motherboard where the ancient thread is first thing that appears in search results.

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Post by Forgeties79 »

GuinansEyebrows wrote: post #268
Forgeties79 wrote: post #129

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It also doesn’t help that so many creators - even legitimate ones - now use injected ads that they don’t verify at all. I remember listening to an episode of Better Offline a buddy sent me and anyone who knows about Ed knows that basically half his crusade is against bad AI implementation/“slop”/etc. He’s broadly against the current LLM rush. First ad when I fired up the podcast episode was yet aother injected ad for…

Cool Zone Media podcasts kinda famously get farmed ads that run counter to their content. they claim they do what they can to influence that (ahem... Washington State Highway Patrol and all the gold scams come to mind) but i wonder if signing their souls away to ihm removed a lot of their agency in that regard. and if you've ever listened to one of Robert's (CZM executive producer and host of some of their flagships)…

What an un-fun reputation to have!

I’m not even against pre-recorded spots by whoever the sponsor is if that’s his deal though the conversion rate on those are not as good. It’s just the completely random ads that the podcaster(s) don’t even know are playing on their show. The entire reason advertising on podcasting was more effective in the 2010s and early 2020s was because there was a little more trust with their listeners, there’s a relationship at play even if it’s parasocial. If they were actively reading on air, I assumed that they vetted the company and it at least passed the smell test (though plenty sure didn’t, I would say the bar was a little higher than other media formats).

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Post by nickff »

tcfhgj wrote: post #284
dylan604 wrote: post #265

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There are plenty of companies I haven't heard of. QED

and yet they survive somehow

Many of them don't. Consider that BMW famously didn't run ads for most of its history... but now it does.

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Post by zahlman »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #207
spcebar wrote: post #205

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Having worked in the world of e-commerce, there are genuinely good companies run by good people making genuinely good products that no one knows about, and one of the ways they try and get people to know about their products is advertising. In one case, this is a product that replaced something already in your home, it's materially better, and it's materially cheaper in the long term. How do you create an ad for that…

You have a curated directory of actually decent stuff, and you list the item there. Don't wrestle with the pigs.

And how do you establish trust to curate it?

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Post by timeinput »

rchaud wrote: post #201
ants_everywhere wrote: post #169

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It's legal to advertise real products or services that will take your money and leave you with essentially nothing. For example: - gambling, e.g. slot machines, sports betting - healing crystals - palm readings - carnival games Perhaps the right distinction is whether something is legally a fraud or not. But I kind of agree that most ads are scams and also that ad networks don't have the ability to separate legal sca…

Yes, these scams have aleays been there. The distinction was that advertisers like newspapers and magazines had a standards body that would reject ad placements that were insulting to their audience's intelligence.

I know television is not newspapers and magazines, but they at least had to have some level of standards bodies (I'm fairly sure they at least did in the early 90s), and I remember Psychic Friends Network ads on tv which is clearly in the realm of palm readings. I guess maybe it wasn't insulting to the intelligence of people watching late night TV in the early 90s?

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Post by jayd16 »

1dom wrote: post #281
jayd16 wrote: post #276

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Is that right? Mobile is like 60% of the web traffic and they don't really have popular and effective ad blocking.

There are native, easily accessible ublock variations for Firefox for Windows, Linux and Android. A lot of nerds also have some form of private overlay network with default DNS to adguard or pihole or similar, again, making for identical adblock experience on all platforms.

Yes and it seems great but there's no denying its not widely used.

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Post by p0w3n3d »

boxed wrote: post #22
p0w3n3d wrote: post #4

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The ad spam is a consequence of EU laws? That's clearly bs.

Content filtering increases cost. That's all. I've been on many forums running non-profit. But when you have to hire admins or pay for AI it gets expensive

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Post by croisillon »

wltr wrote: post #249

This constant difference between the original title and its censored version contributes into the whole impression (this, plus the lack of any moderation log) into the whole community to be very much censored and demotivates me to be here. Which isn’t a bad thing for me personally, the domination part, but the censoring part for no reason is quite disturbing. Why not keep the original title? Rhetorical question.

i agree with that and it keeps happening without sense or meaning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45141483

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Post by fluoridation »

jayd16 wrote: post #306
1dom wrote: post #281

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There are native, easily accessible ublock variations for Firefox for Windows, Linux and Android. A lot of nerds also have some form of private overlay network with default DNS to adguard or pihole or similar, again, making for identical adblock experience on all platforms.

Yes and it seems great but there's no denying its not widely used.

Okay, but what does it matter? The options exist for people who want them, nonetheless.
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