what else goes into publishing for the switch? what kind of content restrictions are there? is it like the app store where you have to be 100% family friendly? what percentage of the sales do you get as a developer? will they be cracking down on asset flipping games?
i'm not an insider or anything, so you can take it with a grain of salt, but i think the answer to all your questions is whatever is good for nintendo.
"what else goes into publishing for the switch?"
whatever's good for nintendo.
"what kind of content restrictions are there?"
whatever's good for nintendo.
"is it like the app store where you have to be 100% family friendly?"
whatever's good for nintendo.
"what percentage of the sales do you get as a developer?"
whatever's good for nintendo.
"will they be cracking down on asset flipping games?"
whatever's good for nintendo.
a game console isn't like a mobile platform. it's less like youtube and more like a television network.
theres a mad dash for everyone in the world to come to american universities and suck every last drop of credibility from them. for a long time college has been getting worse. we went from college being a selective and prestigious club to what we have now: giant degree mills where actual learning is a fucking foot note. and college has become this way because everyone needs a college degree now because there are no jobs for the ordinary joe who doesnt have a degree or connections. so college has been on this slow decline and now we see a ton of asian students who are coming and getting degrees while they still have some value. so at the end of the day the whole thing just stinks. you walk around and look at all the amazing buildings and amenities that the school spent millions upon millions upon millions of fucking dollars on to attract the rich foreign students and out of state party students and the domestic rich students. meanwhile the quality of the education that students get has plummeted. students dont learn anything anymore. elon musk read his physics text book and showed up to exams. he was able to pass because he learned the material. maybe other people have has a different experience but that has not been possible at my school. i had a single professor who went against the current and taught for understanding and at the start of the class he practically got on his hands and knees and begged the students to read the book. being new, i didnt understand. but soon i realized that it was because students dont actually read the books! every other professor chooses some shit textbook thats filled with irrelevant material and you are forced to only read the equations and game the fucking system and get points. learning has been totally abandoned! and now i see swarms of asian students cheating on every exam and i look at the state of the college and it just depresses me. i was in an algorithms class and we had a quiz. times up, we are walking to the front to turn things in and there was an asian guy standing in front of the desk, looking at other peoples papers and copying the answers. completely brazen. and the nobody did anything. nobody gave a shit. and i go to a well known school. the state of affairs is not good.
whenever i see an article like this, i am reminded that these authors are forced to take into consideration the timing and appearance of their articles. for instance, they would be unwise to release a scoop before or during the super bowl. in other words, in the fight to preserve liberty in the world, they are reduced to the same tactics as sleazy advertising and PR companies. it is so sad that such an important, fundamental and altruistic cause is so fragile.
what a coincidence. just the other day i kind of stumbled across the situation with apple and vulkan and was totally mystified. why would apple, who was a supporter of vulkan, not implement drivers for it, and in effect block the possibility for a universal webvulkan standard and all the glorious benefits of it? lo there was a reason! i have to say that i think apple is being a complete dunce. so they refuse to implement vulkan drivers, or even modern gl drivers, and now their next move is to create yet another graphics api? the success of which would depend on everyone else supporting it when apple wouldnt support stuff? apple has enough money (tax dodgers) to support other standards. they should probably do that and do it well before telling everyone else what to do. /rant
if i am not mistaken, ads used to pay a lot more. for example, a friend of mine used to run a website and was able to pay for the hosting costs with a few adsense ads and modest traffic. apparently that is not possible anymore.
there are problems with ad blockers and malicious ads. i simply dont understand why these things are a problem. why do we not see simple ads, static images with no java script, implemented in such a way that ad blockers cant really block them? i mean, if your ad is some image inserted somewhere in one or all of your web pages, how could an ad blocker know which image it was out of the many which are probably going to be present on any given page? and why are people not willing to pay for such an advertising vector? people visit the website, they will see the ad like a billboard or any other traditional ad, so why is it not possible to charge traditional rates? its very confusing to me so if anyone with experience in the matter could weigh in that would be very nice.
> why do we not see simple ads, static images with no java script, implemented in such a way that ad blockers cant really block them?
I've posted about this before as I've actually been involved in a site that does just this. It has basic text ads, side graphical ads, and banner ads. There is no JavaScript used for any of it, all the site images including the ads are served exactly the same way. The text ads are completely embedded in the page text. No 3rd party ad services are used at all.
Ad blockers have no problem blocking every one of them.
From a technical perspective AdBlockers use a variety of techniques to identify ads: blocking certain domains, css selectors, id elements, etc.
There are a few core lists of domain strings that most of the blockers pull from, Easylist is one of the most commonly used:
https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt
Layered on top of that are some general sorts of behavioral rules, things like:
- Is this image an IAB size
- Does the id or class of this HTML element contain 'ad' (yes, some are this blunt a tool and followup yes, they definitely mess up legit content. Try building a site about Active Directory and not use 'ad')
I'm deeply conflicted about the whole thing. If you want a crisp example of what a mess we are in look at Reddit. They have the cleanest, least intrusive ads imaginable, they don't do 3rd party tracking, they work with publishers to try and make ads that are relevant to their audience etc and yet their ads are still blocked by AdBlockers. What are they supposed to do? Who do they appeal to?
> They have the cleanest, least intrusive ads imaginable, they don't do 3rd party tracking, they work with publishers to try and make ads that are relevant to their audience etc and yet their ads are still blocked by AdBlockers.
Well of course. And ad is an ad. And the point of an Adblocker is to block the ad. The main reason I install an Adblocker is because I don't want to see any adverts. (preventing malware, and slow page load times is just an added bonus for me)
I don't share your sentiment. The reason I have adblock is to block intrusive, annoying and misleading ads, e.g. lots of animations, sounds, popups, not letting you leave, claiming that you have a virus, etc. I do not mind traditional Google text ads or simple honest image ads, at all. The fact that my adblocker blocks "good" ads too is because I didn't bother to configure it, not because I have a vendetta against all ads.
> Ad blockers have no problem blocking every one of them.
that's interesting. how would they block a comment like this: This post was made possible by McDonald's (I'm lovin' it), if it were embedded this deeply in post content?
I'm interested only because i have briefly entertained the idea of ad content embeded directly into a db query via a sproc, for example, so that the ad and the post content are basically one and the same... if the entire content is blocked, maybe that's the desired outcome? never bothered to try it though.
If all you wanted to do is embed " This post was made possible by xyz co." Most blockers would miss this. However most advertisers want to have a link provided to track results . It's trivial to block the links to xyz.co/partner=123 . With the above knowledge and some trust a retailer could gain customers and bypass adblockers by bypassing links in their ads and focusing on views.
I'm not a lawyer and I doubt it would be that big of an issue for some random blogger who can barely cover hosting costs with advertising revenue, but I remember there being some regulations (FTC rules?) regarding the separation of advertising and content.
For example if I recall correctly... you can be sued and heavily fined for conflating the two and not explicitly delineating the different types of information. Hence why Facebook and Google advertising can be pretty easily blocked by figuring out the meaning of div labels. Of course to thwart ad blockers, these div labels usually are cycled through pseudo-random characters forcing a cat-and-mouse game in maintaining block lists, but the intent of separation has to be there.
This is similar to the surprising effects of regulation in news reporting that ultimately gives minority viewpoints ample screentime in the spirit of 'fair coverage against bias', leading to viewers' false perception of systemic disunity.
The perverse incentives for mixing in deceptive ads or product recommendations is still there so people find rather interesting ways to sidestep the rules: e.g. hyping up stocks or spreading FUD either 'anonymously' or through intent-obfuscated 'press releases'. But then again these shady counterings are also regulated in other ad-hoc ways such as securities fraud law, fiduciary duty to shareholders, compensated spokesperson laws, libel laws, etc.
The other side of the coin is that we do, actually, want to highlight what is advertising and what is content. You can disguise an ad as content so well that it becomes deceptive.
If a site serves only static ads and doesn’t overuse them, its owners would be in a rare position where they can appeal to the technically and economically literate subset of their active user base, asking them to leave the ads to support the site.
There are some sites that just use images, but in dollar terms the overwhelming majority of ads are served by ad networks, especially Google AdWords. Ad networks create a large and standardized ad market with low transaction costs. By using a network, the content site and the advertiser don't have to spend many hours to find each other, negotiate terms, and figure out how to trust each other. Further, ad networks provide quantitative analytics and targeting information based on sophisticated models of user behavior. These features represent huge investments of data and expertise, which individual sites and advertisers don't have.
A local business can spend 1 hour and $500 on Google AdWords or Facebook Ads and be fairly confident that their ad was seen by X number of real people in their community. A larger brand can pay $500k to run very sophisticated campaigns, where they can drill into detailed demographics, A/B test their ads, and mock up ads to get real-time feedback on products they haven't even made yet. Even with rising adblocker rates, ad networks are still more efficient for most advertisers and content websites.
With just images/text it'll be very hard to track/target people - especially if the image is served from the same website hosting the content (and made to be truly impossible to block). Not to mention ad companies dont seem to care about making it super impossible for ads to be blocked.
You basically need to do deals with companies wanting to place ads yourself if you want to get away from the normal ad practices (please do tell me if im wrong) - which is just impossible as a small website
How much you get payed as publisher varies a lot depending on how valuable your traffic is and how much you do to optimize your revenue. AdBlocking is one variable, e.g. techy sites will have more people using AdBlockers.
in his book "Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison" by John Kiriakou, he tells about the "20 rules" taught to him by the cia to survive in an environment like prison. he briefly discusses these 20 rules in interviews. i dont have the book, does anyone happen to know what these 20 rules are?
