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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by WhompingWindows on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:41AM (#21781944)
But if you pay with ads, don't you need to see a LOT of ads, unless your privacy is compromised and they use trackers about you to give you targeted (i.e. more lucrative) ads?
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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by Karunamon on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:15AM (#21782850)
I don't see why topic-based ads based entirely on on-site participation would be a problem. No need for any user-hostile garbage, bucket your communities into topics, and let advertisers target the topics or the intersections between them. Ads are sold on-site, not via third party networks.

Reddit does this, but no idea how successful it is.

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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by cies on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:04AM (#21782166)
I'm not sure what it costs to have a service running and what non-tracking adds may yield nowadays.

So: not sure.

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