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While they might not track your search history, their business is still built on ads in search results served by Bing.
by pcr0 6y ago
While they might not track your search history, their business is still built on ads in search results served by Bing.
- shandor 6y agoCall me old-fashioned, but I think that's a very good monetization model for the web that I can definitely get behind. It's almost exactly like ads in dead-tree newspapers, which is to say much less intrusive than the ones on TV, for example. Or like how Troy Hunt does it on his blog: he just sells his top banner for ad space, with strict rules for the size of the ad. Of course this only works if you already have a sizeable following, but for the end user I view it as a very unintrusive way of monetizing. Microtransansactions are often brought up, but I don't feel like they are a solved problem from end user perspective. Too much setup and hassle to read random articles from random sites.