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"Advertising [...] the amount you get [...] isn’t big and only pays off with high traffic"

Realy? Glad you think that.

And: no, it does not suck but can provide a positive user experience if done correctly. And: no, I am not talking about hit-the-monkey ads. And: no, it's not as easy as copy-pasting some random ad code into your HTML.

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I obviously didn't spend enough time to think about it hard enough and wasn't able explore the good sides of advertising. I had a web app and placed a big banner over it, the banner often seemed to show confusing buttons like "SHOW" or "DOWNLOAD" and I guess the users then accidentially clicked it. I think the main problem was that there were no ads that fit to the app (it was a QR encoder/decoder) so I wasn't able to provide a positive ux. Do you have any tips on how to find the best fitting ads for (sometimes very technical related) specific sites/apps?

You had an opportunity to provide useful information here, but instead just chose to cop a supercilious attitude. That's disappointing.

Could you be more specific, because I really have no idea what you mean.

I provided "useful information" in saying that it is possible to earn good money with ads, but that it takes more than just copy-pasting a random ad code into the pages.

What is "supercilious" about what I am writing?

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