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Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by corobo on Monday March 15, 2021 @08:55AM (#26465500)
Especially when there's Telegram groups that are charging $10/mo to get into haha.

Advertising and privacy don't mix.

e: I was wrong, it's $20/mo (wip.co)

Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by fsflover on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:00AM (#26465562)
> Advertising and privacy don't mix.

Targeted advertising and privacy don't mix. Context-based advertising is fine for the privacy. But it may not be fine if you don't like to be manipulated.

Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by corobo on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:51PM (#26468373)
How do they track views, clicks and payouts?
Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by chipotle_coyote on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:20PM (#26469221)
You don't, ideally.

One of the great -- although I suspect inevitable -- sins of the early web was the "innovation" of tracking clicks on advertising. Ads had been around for over a century before that in other media, and the only real measure of success available to advertisers was "when I spend money on ads in this [magazine, newspaper, TV show, radio spot, billboard, …], sales appear to go up by this amount, compared to spending money on [other thing]." Selling ads based on the notion that the only effective web advertisement is the one that makes the viewer stop reading that article, right now, and drop everything to CLICK! RIGHT! THIS! MOMENT! was, in the light of all previous advertising history, absolutely bonkers.

Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by skinnymuch on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:51AM (#26477454)
Isn’t wip.co telegram a secondary feature? The payment is for the community at large. Namely the website, no?
Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by corobo on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:16PM (#26480688)
Fuck knows, I only remember it starting as a telegram group.
Re:Telegram is booming but needs advertisers and $700M soon by skinnymuch on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:03AM (#26523309)
Oh wow. That’s pretty interesting. Yeah I don’t know either lol. Crazy price to me