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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by marcosdumay on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:58PM (#20840351)
> perhaps even a tracking one

Tracking the campaign? Yes, probably. But tracking you? How do you expect that to work?

Making ads contextual to the place they are and tracking the campaigns to discover what works and what doesn't is how it should be done.

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Re:NPM Bans Terminal Ads by Ensorceled on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:22PM (#20840563)
I presume the user is assuming you could put a tracking pixel in the readme and have it rendered, the same way the build badges work. Github is, of course, one step ahead and hides those behind camo.githubusercontent.com.
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