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Re: We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

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post #54

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Or see subscription-only publishers thrive?

And slowly make the internet increasingly inaccessible without opening up your wallet. Hooray!

Given what ads have done to give us the current state of the web, I'm willing to give it a shot.

Re: We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

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Article mentions Sentry's shift from tracking to "brand and awareness marketing". Thanks to their recently acquired Syntax Podcast (recommended), I am now quite aware of their brand. Seems like a positive, creative approach to marketing. I wonder if there is a noticeable "Syntax effect" in their business metrics.

Re: We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

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So Google AdWords performance absolutely tanks with the sunsetting of 3rd-party cookies…

It looks like this mostly happens because they lose the conversion signaling which is the most important input to their bidding model, making them pay for 4x as many impressions which still only concert to 1/10th the sales.

Is this the experience that all Google AdWords customers will be waking up to later in 2024? It sounds like Sentry is being pro-active and getting ahead of the curve, and not just cutting their advertising performance for purely benevolent anti-tracking reasons.

When this happened to FB they lost tens of billions of dollars. Will the impact to Google be even greater? If there’s anything that could truly disrupt Google, destroying AdWords ROI has got to be their #1 existential risk.

It’s not like their search experience is even that decent anymore. It would make me quite happy to see Google peak as a company due to internet privacy initiatives winning out over invasive corporate panopticons.

Re: We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

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post #4

Funny that the site tries to load some garbage from googletagmanager.com

Ah, GTM.

I think people might be shocked that access to this RCE backdoor is often given to non-technical roles and even outsourced marketing resources..With no controls in place at all.

Security nightmare.

Re: We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

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post #85

> 42.7% of internet users worldwide use ad blockers. Given how many people I know that still type google into the google search bar, I find this number to be extraordinarily high.

I also find this hard to believe. You'd think Google and other scamvertisers would be screaming in pain right now with profits plummeting.

Re: We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

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post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a user you'll probably find you get more clickbait, more ads, more paywalls, less access to high quailty content, etc as publishers scramble to survive. (Because the value of their ad inventory drops.) And as marketing is less efficient, higher budgets are required to drive the same results. We can potentially expect to see these costs gradually passed on to the consumers and watch more businesses fail.

Or see subscription-only publishers thrive?

This is what Apple has been attempting to push for years. They want a nice juicy reoccuring cut of publisher revenue.

Re: We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened

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post #94

So Google AdWords performance absolutely tanks with the sunsetting of 3rd-party cookies… It looks like this mostly happens because they lose the conversion signaling which is the most important input to their bidding model, making them pay for 4x as many impressions which still only concert to 1/10th the sales. Is this the experience that all Google AdWords customers will be waking up to later in 2024? It sounds like…

Color me skeptical cookies are going anywhere this year.
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