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A comment on Ask HN: How Can Ads Not Suck?.

Re:Ask HN: How Can Ads Not Suck? by dabent on Saturday March 06, 2010 @07:44PM (#1172585)
A lot of the ads I see that "suck" are for scam. Most, if not all of those ads are driven by rebills. If we can get rid of rebills, we can get rid of a lot of the crap ads.
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Re:Ask HN: How Can Ads Not Suck? by jacquesm on Saturday March 06, 2010 @07:57PM (#1172614)
The reason for that is that advertising is market driven, those that make the most money off a user are the ones that will pay the most for a spot.

Rebills and upsells are a way to make a lot of money from a single signup so that's why those advertisers pay top dollar.

And as long as the credit card companies allow scammers to operate this will continue.

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