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This and another article I was reading a week ago got me thinking - is there an opportunity for a friendly ad network?

At the very least I'd like it to have:

- no tracking of visitors, it decides what ads to show based on the content of the site being viewed

- all ads are approved by a human before being displayed, and link bait will be banned

- ads are static images only, no js allowed

I'm also wondering about a feature so users can pay to support sites and in exchange they won't be shown ads.

If anyone wants to work on this, my email address is in my profile :-)



Someone else mentioned TheDeck, but another prominent place where this is the case is Reddit (very on topic, minimal % of content, no tracking, approved, etc.)

Two issues that come up:

- This pays less, not so much the static images and lack of link bait, but the lack of retargeting.

- They're still blocked by ad-blockers at the same rate as everything else


That idea sounds similar to The Deck: http://decknetwork.net/


Sounds just like banner ads back in the 90s!

Still looking for an idea in this thread that moves us forward...


Subset of JS permitted in a policy-declared Iframe, similar to CSP, limited to merely fixed rendering, no networking whatsoever, save the initial script exec. Ads go in here, or browser blocks them by default, as a spam-like prevention measure.




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