Hacker News is kind of ad based. Via the "Company X (YC YYYY) is hiring" posts.
How does the community feel about this?
Could this type of "native advertising" be a model for other websites too?
On the one hand, it so much less annoying than a colorful, animated javascript banner loaded from a 3rd party server. On the other hand, I have the feeling these little lines of text get noticed more due to not being filtered by "banner blindness".
I am ok with these ads. They don’t track you and they make sense in this context. I also don’t mind kiteboarding ads on a kiteboarding site. They are actually useful there. What I don’t like is ads that make no sense in the context of the site and are powered by massive data collection.
How does the community feel about this?
Could this type of "native advertising" be a model for other websites too?
On the one hand, it so much less annoying than a colorful, animated javascript banner loaded from a 3rd party server. On the other hand, I have the feeling these little lines of text get noticed more due to not being filtered by "banner blindness".