There are free and paid list of all ip addresses from datacenters like https://udger.com/resources/datacenter-list, they probably existing for specifically preventing this, so maybe thats an option here.
Looks like fun and great idea to aggregate those online experiences/activities for teams. I do have a bit of trouble to understand what you get from those activities? I watched a few of those activity movies, but it didn't explain what was going to happen? Do all members get an assignment? Is it more a presentation? A game?
Hi and thank you for the feedback! Each activity host has their own methodologies and each activity has a different outcome.
I believe you raised a very god point thought. I will ask refocus the videos to be more direct on what to expect about them :)
Maybe its me but I am personally more of a text person, dont like to watch long videos if not needed, so if there is some summary or text at every activity that would definitely help me evaluate choose. Definitely see this as a pain point right now with everyone wfh!
Always a challenge to capture wisdom gathered over the years in a few bullets. Maybe that is the lesson for a CTO; things are never easy so you have to dive in? I am in a CTO role for 25+ years in the SAAS space, but also cofounder, which makes it a bit different compared to non-founders I think, as you feel deeply responsible for the growth of the company as a whole, next to building a great product and team.
Some things that come to mind while thinking about this:
- Work on having an overview of the product + market you are building, but also be able to dive into the nitty gritty details
- Never forget that in the end you work for the customer, not for the engineers in your team, and find the right balance between technical debt, building technical amazing solution and feature building
- In the best moments you can combine those things; built a great solution that is future proof, uses the best technologies and provides great value to customers, but that's definitely not a given, and one of the skills I still try to excel in every day
- To capture market share, sometimes you don't need the most fancy technical solution, only a solution that is good enough, and a solution that competitors do not have (yet) but you are earlier on the market with it. It might go against your engineering heart to be so pragmatic, but it is what is
- Talk with customers wherever you can to keep you focused on the market, and find the balance between what the market wants, and what technology can provide
- The role of a CTO differs widely. So figure out quick what your take on the role is and how you can provide best value to the company. Are you the technical visionary that writes blogs, present webinars etc? The architect that builds the core of your product? The team builder that can built up the best team?
- The role also changes enormously depending of the size of the company and growth over time, so if you're feeling great about the current position, cherish that as it might change soon :)
Ads will definitely not disappear, only the tracking aspect. It will be more contextual ads probably, related to what page your are looking at, less related to you as an individual.
This would have been true for this change as well, clearly if Apple chose a different path means that it's not as clear cut as you imply here. And yeah contextual and stuff is nice but will simply not drive the same revenue for publishers.
This isn't true, targeted advertising only gets publishers about 4% more revenue, despite adtech's claims it's over 50%. And when adtech is banned, revenues will stabilize around remaining activity.
You deliberately choose to ignore all of the studies that disagree with you except the one that you agree with that has very obvious flaws. Here's a summary of the literature[1]. Personalized ads have become popular because they perform better for the buyer, and that makes buyers willing to pay more to show them to their customers. Buyer goals align with conversions. The history of advertising online started with contextual, there is zero evidence to support the claim that revenue will only drop 4% when any company submitting bids for contextual vs personalized ads can show you that the CPMs they are willing to pay can easily be 2-3x if not even higher for high worth users.
Ads have effectively disappeared for a number of years now for those who use a sensible approach to ad blocking (i.e. a combination of ingress blocking, DNS blacklists and browser-based blocking). This could change if content providers start using different approaches to ad insertion - e.g. video ads merged into the original content, ads as part of original page content - but even those avenues will be neutered within not too long. It probably makes sense for ad purveyors to not fret too much over ad blocking users since these users often react negatively to advertising and as such are better left alone.
In most cases I find direct ad insertion (as in ad sponsership of the creator) a lot less offensive than some algorythmetic insertion based on some unknown metric. At least then the creator has to decide if the ad they are running is acceptable in their product.
That isn't ad insertion but sponsorship. What I mean is for the server to present a single video stream which does not contain markers to identify advertising content, more or less the way many netcast ads are inserted into the audio stream.
> Ads will definitely not disappear, only the tracking aspect.
Ads without tracking are an even less effective business model. We don't have to make ads stop working entirely, we just have to make them sufficiently ineffective that they're not worth paying enough to make ad revenue worthwhile.
Looked at that in the past, for a more realistic experience you probably have to buy yokes like https://www.brunner-innovation.swiss/product/cls-e-ng-yoke/, which have more steps and do have force feedback. Unfortunately they are quite expensive ($1000 and up..)
Weirdly enough, they also have a European version of the privacy policy, at https://privacy.icq.com/legal/privacypolicy/eu which is quite different (but no word on encryption), and on https://icq.com/security-calls/en it states that video calls ARE e2e encrypted, its a weird mix of parts encrypted, parts not, part GDPR, some not it seems.
Nice way to see if EU sites are GDPR compliant, because you didn't give consent when hitting a website those websites should not use any external tags yet. You can see for example nos.nl or lemonde.fr are fairly clean, but bbc.com or bild.de are not, even though there is no consent.
