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Re:The European Union versus the Internet by craftyguy on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:46PM (#18018960)
There are ads on HN (the "xyz is hiring", and I suspect a non-zero number of articles posted/promoted to the front page are paid ads made to look like content.
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Re:The European Union versus the Internet by true_religion on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:37PM (#18020315)
The hiring ads are not external ads. HN is 100% a marketing and PR tool to generate good will amongst developers, and startup founders.

If it ever starts to not benefit ycombinator, then the aite goes away.

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Re:The European Union versus the Internet by AdamM12 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:04PM (#18019603)
Ok so how's that work for a news site? Don't they need some kind of tracking to get relevant info on what their users are interested in?
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Re:The European Union versus the Internet by craftyguy on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:17PM (#18019718)
You can gauge user interest by, for example, counting page views. You don't need to fingerprint users, create a catalog of all articles they view, try to guess their interest in certain topics using "AI", and do all the other absurdity that they think they "need" to do now.
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Re:The European Union versus the Internet by AdamM12 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @06:26PM (#18019800)
IMO you could just go to another site that doesn't. To each their own.
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