http://teodesian.net//posts/898a5a80-13f6-11ec-bdd7-b2bd9f9ef209?format=xml teodesian.net : /posts/898a5a80-13f6-11ec-bdd7-b2bd9f9ef209 en 2026-05-02T03:23:47 2026-05-02T03:23:47 /favicon.ico http://teodesian.net 32 32 teodesian.net favicon http://teodesian.net/posts/898a5a80-13f6-11ec-bdd7-b2bd9f9ef209 Adblockers and bots both rose together as a consequence of the advertising industry’s carelessness and short-sighted greed. Obsessed with maximizing their profits, advertisers and media buying agencies developed a vast apparatus: programmatic tools, which carry low single-digit CPMs (in the best of cases); ad exchanges that send repackaged users profiles to platforms that match them to ad formats; retargeting systems that track users, displaying over and over the same ads on every site visited after a search. The latter maneuver yields predictable results: tracking excesses generate the same negative perception as intrusive ads, and stimulate adblockers installation. Glad they're finally figuring this out in the wider web; I figured this out years ago. On the web, subscriptions are the way to go.]]> doge http://teodesian.net/posts/898a5a80-13f6-11ec-bdd7-b2bd9f9ef209 2015-10-02T07:56:57 http://teodesian.net/posts/1443772617 Adblockers and bots both rose together as a consequence of the advertising industry’s carelessness and short-sighted greed. Obsessed with maximizing their profits, advertisers and media buying agencies developed a vast apparatus: programmatic tools, which carry low single-digit CPMs (in the best of cases); ad exchanges that send repackaged users profiles to platforms that match them to ad formats; retargeting systems that track users, displaying over and over the same ads on every site visited after a search. The latter maneuver yields predictable results: tracking excesses generate the same negative perception as intrusive ads, and stimulate adblockers installation. Glad they're finally figuring this out in the wider web; I figured this out years ago. On the web, subscriptions are the way to go.]]> doge http://teodesian.net/posts/1443772617 2015-10-02T07:56:57