By separating out the wallet functionality from the social application we can now show ads to signed in users without compromising security. We are currently experimenting with this feature, yes.
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I don’t want to see ads when I’m logged in unless you’re compensating me for it. If you’re not going to do that (as I suggested to Ned two years ago), I’ll use another interface that will.
I’ll also use another interface that doesn’t make me sign in multiple times to use the same blockchain.
I suspect others will be doing the same.
They are also ads that like to track you. I don't see them myself, but I do see this in the console:
The resource at “https://www.googletagservices.com/tag/js/gpt.js” was blocked because tracking protection is enabled.
The resource at “https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js” was blocked because tracking protection is enabled.
The resource at “https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js” was blocked because tracking protection is enabled.
I also noticed that Steemit doesn't set cookies in Firefox, but does on some versions of Chrome, without a warning, which is against the law in some jurisdictions; 6 cookies and some local storage, to be exact.
When I remove these cookies, Steemit logs me out; when I block Steemit from setting cookies, I can't login, because:
app.c0f8216….js:1 Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document.
Such fun.
So are a part of the ad revenues going to the content creator, or only to steemit.inc? Or is a part being dropped in the reward pool. I do remember how much people were all looking forward to the ads, and ad revenue. (I was not one of them BTW). Are ads going to be placed mostly on the popular post those that make the trending page, It think that is where they should start first since it was people who thought of themselves as bloggers that wanted the ads to begin with.
I think all those people that wanted ads are going to be sorry they got what they wanted.
I think it depends on what generation steemians you're talking about.
Many early adopters are quite comfortable using other front ends, so they can easily avoid the adverts.
For the new guys joining, it will just be the norm and they many never venture out to other platforms keeping in mind the complexity of signing in etc.
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I think it's rather the other way. Newbies are using Partiko from day 2 on.
Interesting, well I am all for experimentation. It would be interesting to know how much traffic steemit gets from non-account holders who come to browse the content.
Steem posts have always managed quite high Google rankings.
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