HN does have a section for job ads [1], which are exempt from the usual voting mechanism and don't stay on the front page for long. I think that's a good compromise.
Re:AdTech Sucks
by j-c-hewitt on Friday June 07, 2019 @11:41AM
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They are still context sensitive, just the retargeting guy is bidding higher so that is what is showing.
I don’t know much about ads but that’s something I have noticed. When online ads started they are actually sometimes useful to me because of context. Now they are totally useless to me. They are just noise.
Re:AdTech Sucks
by Scoundreller on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:09PM
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On the plus side, this means that a website operator of a low-profit topic can still earn a living.
When I was blogging a decade ago I would write almost exclusively about finance because it paid the best. With this system, I could write about other topics and still capture some of that finance-context revenue.
Now you see ads for blenders because you bought one or looked at one last week. Ads are not context sensitive anymore.
I would have no problem if HN made some money with advertising for dev tools. It makes sense. Personalized ads are creepy and annoying.