12mo ago

bg3wiki:Ads Announcement 2

bg3.wiki

Looks like Taylan has made his decision: he intends to put ads on bg3.wiki

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The ads are going to be personalized, which at this point seems to be standard practice and necessary for good revenue. This means that, based on other websites you visit which also serve ads, the ad company creates an anonymous profile of your interests, and tries to show you ads you're more likely to be interested in. This is also called "tracking" of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.
Nope. Screw off.
- "tracking" of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.
  No, it makes it sound like exactly what it is.
- Best case: he has no idea what he's talking about. Worst case: he has and still writes that.
  
  Yeah, if he said "tracking is bad but because of the market dominance I have no choice" or whatever I could understand his position. But fuck that.
- Anonymous, but we can use it to identify everything about you.
- Google stopped pretending the profiles are anonymous a while ago.
Oh no, I guess I'll just have to continue using ublock
Just use an ad blocker? I've used that wiki loads and honestly can't blame the guy for wanting to try and make a bit of money for his and other people's time and effort.
That said maybe patreon or something would have been a better idea.
- I can.
  He mentions in the link that everything everyone added was explicitly licensed to not be commercial.
  
  Sure, but hosting the wiki itself has a cost.
- Wouldn’t pay as much.
  It sounds insane to me when he says maintaining a wiki for a video game, is a full-time job…
  
  Maintaining high quality content is harder than it sounds, especially for a topic as expansive as BG3.

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