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   by jroschen 7y ago

   Sorry about that, for some reason, this site requires www. https://www.thinkiowacity.com
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   by jroschen 7y ago

   Iowa City and their pedestrian mall is easily one of the best places to spend a couples days at in the Midwest. Being a college town, it’s a bit of an oasis in the Midwest for all sorts of fantastic local restaurants, arts, and people. With
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   by jroschen 7y ago

   Shameless plug: this is what we are trying to do at https://contextcue.com . Ads that are targeted to the website you’re on, instead of the person viewing the ad. We’d love any feedback about what we are trying to accomplish!
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   by jroschen 7y ago

   I think that this could be a boon to pixel tracking. From my understanding, a site could embed multiple tracking pixels on a page to give a good approximation of how far the user scrolls and how long it takes them to scroll down the page, a
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   by jroschen 7y ago

   That's a good point. We'll add this to our long list of things to do :)
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   by jroschen 7y ago

   Nope, we don't do any individual targeting. We base the ads on the website that that the ads are on. We believe that targeting based on the website will still provide relevant ads because the user is already interested in the content o
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   by jroschen 7y ago

   Sorry, I should have been more clear. Those links were to old pages that don't exist anymore, so I removed them from the original page. We have moved most of our support/information resources over to https://support.con
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   by jroschen 7y ago

   This should be resolved now. Thank you!
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   by jroschen 7y ago

   We use JavaScript to fetch the ads, but the ads themselves are static images. We went with static images for a few reasons. 1) Speed. There's no need to download a bunch of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. 2) Security. No JS in the ads means
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    by jroschen 7y ago

    This is a great question, and a very important one. The number of users referred to your site or product (based on traffic logs) should be similar to the number of ad clicks that you're charged for. This won't be 100% accurate due
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    by jroschen 7y ago

    Thanks for trying this out! We should probably warn potential users that this is still in the early stages (we've been working on this for nearly a year and figured we should get some feedback). 1. Definitely a good idea (I'm glad
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    Show HN: ContextCue – Create and host private, ethical ads(contextcue.com)

    80 points by jroschen 7y ago|45 comments