#commentary on monetization

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Why Are There Currently No Ads On Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous

You probably didn’t notice it, but there are currently no third-party ads on Techdirt. We pulled them down late last week, after it became i

Well, if you can't figure out why the ad system won't work, best to dump them. Would love it if there was an incentive for other people to get into the space of serving up ads.

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Web Monetization – Techdirt

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This is the section on Techdirt that talks about web monetization.

They have several articles about it.

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Error 402: Information Wants To Be… Freemium?

Last week in the Error 402 series on the past, present, and future of web monetization, we talked about the whole “information wants to be e

This article talks about the freemium model that a lot of places are using.

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Error 402: Searching For Ways To Pay For Content

Last week in our Error 402 series on the history of web monetization, we wrote about the earliest forms of web advertising: banner ads. As w

This article talks about Google became the king of ads on the Internet.

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Error 402: You Will Click On Internet Ads, Oh So Many Internet Ads

Last week in our Error 402 series on the history of web monetization, we covered how early paywalls for content almost universally failed. W

This article talks about the early banner ads that first appeared on the early days of the internet.