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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 19:43:53 JST Rich Felker

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   • 64 Islands Airship Cooperative
   • David Nash
   • Frawst

   @dpnash @airshipper @frawst It's an auction market where advertisers bid to have their ads shown to bots. Scams all the way down and the only party who wins is the auctioneer.

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     David Nash (dpnash@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 19:43:54 JST David Nash

     • 64 Islands Airship Cooperative
     • Frawst

     @airshipper @frawst Ad tech. Lots of ad tech. It’s not just “hey, Internet Rando, give us some cash and we’ll throw your ad onto the search results somewhere.” That’s chump change they’re not interested in. Instead a lot of it is a huge underlying bidding/auction setup where advertisers constantly bid (often enormous amounts) for favorable placement. https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2472742

     Last I saw, about 75% of their revenue was ads, with most of the rest Google Cloud services.