TBH I want a option to enable ads to support my instance since I can’t donate money.
There should be a way to opt in ads . There will be a lot of people who will be willing to enable it to support their instance.
You getting ads will give them like a dollar a year and you’d absolutely have to have tracking enabled for them to even get that, unpersonalized ads are deemed pretty worthless because you don’t click on things that you aren’t into. The extra power consumption from loading ads + extra spying on you will cost you about as much as the instance would get from it.
If you donate 5 dollars a year, you’re doing more than you would by seeing ads.
The data brokers and advertising industry want you to keep repeating the idea that personalized ads are the only way - but I think in this case particularly contextual ads would be great. You’re on a niche community, advertise based on what is actually on the community instead of personalized ads. Not at all incompatible with privacy.
TBH I want a option to enable ads to support my instance since I can’t donate money. There should be a way to opt in ads . There will be a lot of people who will be willing to enable it to support their instance.
You getting ads will give them like a dollar a year and you’d absolutely have to have tracking enabled for them to even get that, unpersonalized ads are deemed pretty worthless because you don’t click on things that you aren’t into. The extra power consumption from loading ads + extra spying on you will cost you about as much as the instance would get from it.
If you donate 5 dollars a year, you’re doing more than you would by seeing ads.
The data brokers and advertising industry want you to keep repeating the idea that personalized ads are the only way - but I think in this case particularly contextual ads would be great. You’re on a niche community, advertise based on what is actually on the community instead of personalized ads. Not at all incompatible with privacy.