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Re:'Your Frustration Is the Product' by piperswe on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:08AM (#47440792)
Project Wonderful took the best of both (automated auction for ads, but there's only one ad active at any given moment for any given ad slot so no targeting) but apparently it wasn't able to keep making enough money to stay around
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Re:'Your Frustration Is the Product' by frmersdog on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:36PM (#47442126)
IIUC this is how ads on 4chan work. I learned this during my brief foray into targeted merchandising (https://www.temporary-url.com/9CBFE). Everyone on a given board at a given time was seeing the same ads.
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Re:'Your Frustration Is the Product' by frmersdog on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:16PM (#47524565)
>When the temporary url dies, it becomes a referral link to cryptocrap.

Huh. Good to know. Please don't click it anymore, thanks.

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Re:'Your Frustration Is the Product' by egypturnash on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:54PM (#47442420)
ComicAd Network exists solely to fill the gap PW left, I really need to get around to setting it up on my current comics project.
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