How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–and Why You Should

Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by chii on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:00AM (#38731105)

But how many Wikipedias can there be?

They got funding because they are large and have reputation behind them.

If you tried starting up a new Wikipedia to compete, guess he much non-advert funding you'd get?

Look at how quora tried and failed hard, and have to sell out to survive. Look at stack overflow these days?

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by beej71 on Friday December 22, 2023 @12:14AM (#38731179)

I don't have the number offhand, but Wikipedia did exactly that kind of startup competing with online encyclopedias.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by hutzlibu on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:26AM (#38732504)

"Look at how quora tried and failed hard"

They made lots of bad choices, leading to users (including me) leaving the plattform.

And in general I don't think that you need that many wikipedias, my point was, that donation funded websites work -> if people want it to work.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by ndriscoll on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:23AM (#38734978)

You don't need resources if you are small and unknown. Run it at your house until you have a few thousand users, and then move to something like Hetzner (if you're one of those Swiss people with 25 Gb/s Internet, skip step 2). If I'm interpreting their grafana[0] right, Wikimedia gets ~20 edits per second and usually peaks less than ~200k requests/second across all projects, and it looks like traffic has not exceeded 7 Gb/s over the last 90 days across all data centers. Even the largest projects are not a lot from a technical perspective these days.

[0] https://grafana.wikimedia.org

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