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Flimm | 5 months ago

There are many ways to monetize free online websites. The most obvious way is advertising. Advertising can be privacy-respecting.

The Guardian in particular is funded by a trust fund, by donations, by advertising, and maybe by other sources of revenue as well.

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vovavili|5 months ago

>Advertising can be privacy-respecting

Not the effective kind.

grishka|5 months ago

The entire previous history of humanity we only had non-targeted ads in newspapers, on billboards, and on TV and radio, and everyone was ok with that. But suddenly, on the internet, it's somehow "not possible" to have advertising that isn't personalized or even dynamic at all. How so?