Looks like Taylan has made his decision: he intends to put ads on bg3.wiki

  • conciselyverboseEnglish
    451·
    5 months ago

    The ads are going to be personalized, which at this point seems to be standard practice and necessary for good revenue. This means that, based on other websites you visit which also serve ads, the ad company creates an anonymous profile of your interests, and tries to show you ads you’re more likely to be interested in. This is also called “tracking” of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.

    Nope. Screw off.

    • Kraiden@kbin.run
      26·
      5 months ago

      “tracking” of users, which makes it sound slightly more ominous than what it really is.

      No, it makes it sound like exactly what it is.

    • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      Best case: he has no idea what he’s talking about. Worst case: he has and still writes that.

      • conciselyverboseEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, if he said “tracking is bad but because of the market dominance I have no choice” or whatever I could understand his position. But fuck that.

    • mindbleachEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Anonymously personalized!

      I’ll put them in my flying submarine, next to the soup sandwich.

  • symthetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    5 months ago

    Just use an ad blocker? I’ve used that wiki loads and honestly can’t blame the guy for wanting to try and make a bit of money for his and other people’s time and effort.

    That said maybe patreon or something would have been a better idea.

    • conciselyverboseEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      I can.

      He mentions in the link that everything everyone added was explicitly licensed to not be commercial.

        • conciselyverboseEnglish
          9·
          5 months ago

          Not a huge one.

          But more importantly, he thinks installing open source updates on a community project with community data constitutes a full time job. His guess is that it will generate “significantly higher” than 15k per month and he wants a big chunk of that.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      Wouldn’t pay as much.

      It sounds insane to me when he says maintaining a wiki for a video game, is a full-time job…

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        5 months ago

        Maintaining high quality content is harder than it sounds, especially for a topic as expansive as BG3.

        • conciselyverboseEnglish
          91·
          5 months ago

          It’s a wiki. With literally over 100 people who have done a large number of edits. He’s not doing anywhere near all the work of documenting the game.

          • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            5 months ago

            Curating a wiki is not as easy as you think. If anyone can edit the content, you have to be willing to open your site to all kinds of low-quality, off-topic, or counter factual edits. Reviewing the work of hundreds of users to maintain a consistent style and tone can absolutely be a full-time job.

            I don’t know if it’s the case here, of course. But there’s a whole lot of “curating isn’t REAL work” shaming going on in this thread.

            • conciselyverboseEnglish
              91·
              5 months ago

              It’s not anything in the neighborhood of a full time job. He absolutely does not deserve to make a living on it.

              And when those 100+ users contributed explicitly under a license dictating it not be for commercial use, he doesn’t deserve to earn a penny more than his expenses.