I understand some pages need advertising revenue to survive, and that targeted advertising brings in a lot more revenue, but Linode is not a blog, it's a cloud provider valued at almost a billion dollars. They don't need to do this.
I understand some pages need advertising revenue to survive, and that targeted advertising brings in a lot more revenue, but Linode is not a blog, it's a cloud provider valued at almost a billion dollars. They don't need to do this.
A few years ago, I built a website while kind of forgetting how others experience the web. It's lightweight, and eschews ads, newsletter prompts, cookie notices, chatboxes, tracking and all the other annoyances. I didn't think much of it, but a lot of people notice and bring it up when they contact me.
I'm tapping into an undiscovered niche: websites that don't piss people off!
I know them only because their cookie banners often use a layer to block the website, sometimes doesn't load with WebKit on Linux or are slow. I've doubts about a centralized storage of cookie data across different websites.
This is fine. Insight is overrated. However I'm not optimizing for conversions, while Linode probably has professionals doing that full time.
I can't imagine trying to convince my boss to blind the marketing team, especially since the effect is immeasurable by design. I can use Plausible because it doesn't threaten a whole department.
Anyways, that would then need to use a, say, "local storage banner" for most intrusive tracking and we're back to square one.
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