On: Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compl...

[Hnrobert42]

I would be willing to load ads if I didnt have to see them. I’m happy. Content provider gets ad shown so they are happy. Advertiser doesn’t get anything, but I don’t care.

[drewmol → Hnrobert42]

You can please everyone with AdNauseam ;-)

https://adnauseam.io/

[themacguffinman → Hnrobert42]

...the content provider is only happy that the ad is shown because advertisers pay them for it. Advertisers aren't going to pay content providers if people loaded ads without seeing them.

[Hnrobert42 → themacguffinman]

How would they know?

[themacguffinman → Hnrobert42]

Because the browser would tell them.

And if this became a trend, it'd be really obvious in their ROI and they would stop funding the content provider.

[yifanl → Hnrobert42]

So essentially a bitcoin miner running in the background?