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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizin... by michaelt on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:06AM (#29919359)
The moment you add advertising, you need to welcome a bunch of tracking and spying on users, an unavoidable cookie consent popover, a huge network of unchecked 'partners' any of whom can serve the latest browser exploits to your users, and the ads will be tasteless - scams, malware, and grinning mouths full of rotten teeth.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizin... by true_religion on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:27AM (#29920016)
You don’t have to do any of that. You can sell advertising directly to companies, and moderate all content before it’s displayed to a user.

A lot of people don’t like that because it takes away from your true focus: content creation or software development.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizin... by slg on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:32AM (#29922696)
None of this is a requirement of advertising. Adsense isn’t the only form of internet advertising. There is a reason I said a static banner ad. It can be as simple as a native HTML anchor element with an image inside.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizin... by TigeriusKirk on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:14PM (#29923423)
If you do anything badly it will suck. Don't do it badly.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizin... by marssaxman on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:43AM (#29936774)
Doing it not-badly would take time and energy; likely more of each than it took to create the game.
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