10 sats \ 3 replies \ @timechain 12 Jan 2023 \ on: Ads on Nostr nostr
I clicked depends because, like Twitter, when ads are shown, the incentives are to collect data so that the ads have a higher efficiency of capturing user click-thrus. I mean, Nostr relays probably know less about you than Twitter, but they might know your IP address and they can scan your notes for data and your friend's notes.
Of course, if they don't do that, I would be cool with it. For the time being, advertising Nostr-y & Bitcoin-y services would be a great demographic fit, without the need to collect data, since the majority of Nostr users are Bitcoiners still.
Would you be open to that if they paid you increasingly more sats for increasingly targeted ads?
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I guess so. What a user submits to relays is intended to be public, so maybe there would be data there you could use. I'd be okay with them knowing my country of origin. I wouldn't want them to partner with anyone else tracking me elsewhere on the internet though. Once you start displaying stuff about me that Google knows, like a location I was recently at, I really think you are cutting into what is enjoyable and charming about Nostr. There are reasons why, because of the demographics attracted to early Nostr use, such ads may be considered more intrusive than the average user may consider them.
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I think those are all fair points. Certainly agree that cross site tracking over steps the privacy line.
I like the relay concept because it is opt-in. A good opportunity to agree a transaction between both parties for fair value Attention->Sats. Having agency over the value of my attention and a market demand is interesting– but yeah, ads.
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