Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Jack Yan (甄爵恩) @jackyan@mastodon.social

11/20/2025, 1:31:18 AM

Public

@Em0nM4stodonEm Thank you! As a publisher, we donʼt track, but we did have some ads from networks that tracked. I made a commitment to our readers (not that any asked for this) that we would be tracker-free this year. I wrote to the ad networks to see if any would go along with this and got zero replies. So we removed all their ads. Now we just have ones we run ourselves with no trackers. Didnʼt seem particularly hard to do and I wish more would.

Rob Hooft @rwwh@mastodon.social

11/20/2025, 6:07:08 PM

Public

@jackyanJack Yan (甄爵恩) @Em0nM4stodonEm Dutch public Radio and TV did their research years ago, and found out that advertisements have *more* benefit (read: advertisers will pay more!) from being associated to the right content than from being associated to the profiles of the readers.

For example: advertise for hammers on a page about home improvement. It is likely that people visiting such a page are interested in hammers. Maybe even at that moment.

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