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Me and a few other people have been pushing for ethical advertising. It doesn't have to be this way.

We meet monthly to give each other advice and help each other out. It's hard, it can take more time, but it's been a great experience, and I hope that this starts to become the norm over time.

Here's the group:

- Eric Berry with CodeFund (https://codefund.io)

- David Fischer with ReadTheDocs (https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advertising/ethical-ad...)

- Roberto Galoppini with Filezilla (https://filezilla-project.org/ethical_ads.php)

- Harley Hicks (Me) with RoutineHub (https://routinehub.co/ads)

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> - Harley Hicks (Me) with RoutineHub (https://routinehub.co/ads)

Heads up: in Firefox Quantum 67, when I attempt to open your page in a new tab, it instantly closes again.

I use Firefox as my main driver and just tested this, and it does exactly as you're saying. Thanks, I'll take a look.

I absolutely love this. Have y'all been collecting your advice? I'd love to learn what has and hasn't worked so far for your projects.

I've been trying to do a monthly report on the RH blog, but I'm behind by a couple months. I've actually been thinking more about how to get more info about this. If you have any specific questions, I can try and answer them for you or bring them back to the others.

I'm building a reading game and I want to run simple ethical ads for fantasy novels and live play RPG podcasts and the ilk on the homepage of my app at a later point. I'm at the point in building where I'm initially building my audience and need to advertise that my game exists to the world.

Where else can I buy an ethical ad to find my potential players? My best idea so far has been to purchase an advertisement on some of those podcasts I mentioned, since they are just reading a sentence or three during their normal recording so there is no additional tracking really going on that I'm aware of.

You four would be a great option for reaching other developers. Imagine if you could search for ethical advertisers by category with links to reach out. Does this exist already?

Podcasts are a great place to advertise! No tracking available there.

I would suggest looking at communities and websites that are targeting fantasy novels and Tabletop RPGs. You're headed in the right direction.

Unfortunately that solution doesn't exist yet.

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