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Re:The Bullshit Web by harshreality on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @06:00PM (#17657628)
There used to be an open source self-hosted (php) ad application called openx. It worked well for quite a while. In its later years, it suffered a number of high-profile security vulnerabilities, and the open source version was poorly maintained since OpenX [the company] was focused more on their hosted solution which probably had migrated to a different codebase or at least was a major version past the open source codebase.

The open source version has been renamed "Revive Adserver", and it looks maintained, but I don't think it's used nearly as much as the openx [open source version] of old.

If you use Revive Adserver or you design a server-local ad system in-house, it won't be as sophisticated as gigantic ad-providers who can do all sorts of segmentation and analysis (producing pretty reports which execs and stakeholders love even if that knowledge adds no value to the business).

Re:The Bullshit Web by smolder on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @09:41PM (#17658964)
Funny that you mention that --in a former life I had to develop around and maintain an openx system.