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Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 14 10:19 am    Post subject: Websites and advertising revenue. Reply with quote
    

A friend has asked me about getting advertising revenue from websites, and I don't know a lot, except that it is possible.

Top of the list of questions was about inappropriate advertising: how can we be sure to avoid unethical companies?

sean
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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 14 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Google Ads (And I assume any other ad provider) allows you to block certain subjects/advertisers.

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 14 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sean wrote:
Google Ads (And I assume any other ad provider) allows you to block certain subjects/advertisers.

I had assumed that to be the case, but that seems to me to be inadequate, and an organisation like google ought to be far more on top of it than that: they ought to have a system by which all their advertisers get rated: on ethics, environment, quality, etc...

Maybe they already do, or maybe they just haven't thought of that.

henchard



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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 14 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Surely one person's ethical is another's unethical? Personally i'd find many things unethical from religion to alternative medicine but others would have the opposite view.

Isn't the whole concept of advertising unethical as they seek to influence people?

Doesn't affect me as I have a list of all the known as servers in my PC's host file, so I very rarely see an advert on the interweb.

Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 14 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

henchard wrote:
Surely one person's ethical is another's unethical? Personally i'd find many things unethical from religion to alternative medicine but others would have the opposite view.

Yes, but consider the networked nature of the google community. If people write reviews and you can rate their reviews then it can build up a picture of what is important to you and which reviewers are worth paying heed to.

Rob R



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PostPosted: Sat May 17, 14 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

henchard wrote:
Isn't the whole concept of advertising unethical as they seek to influence people?


What's unethical about that? If we banish advertising as unethical, how would trade work in an ethical society?

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