Well, this is some sad news.
The short version is that sites like FB (and Twitter, and even Mastodon to some degree...) that try to keep you captive basically killed the independent website, and with it, this.It's basically exactly what I've been worried about for years, and now it's here.
Project Wonderful was the single last decent advertising service and I will miss it dearly. It didn't do any tracking, it wasn't invasive, there were no "bad ads". It was an image and a link. Sometimes a GIF. You had 100% control over what happened.
And now it's gone.
The obituary is here; it's worth reading. https://www.projectwonderful.com/thanks.php
@sina yeah. :( i use them currently on tcrf and i've advertised through them a few times ... it's really sad to see it go.
@Xkeeper oh dear. if advertising is to exist at all, it needs to be more ones which vet their ads and don't do tracking, not less
@kit yeah :(
@Xkeeper literally the one good advertiser out there if there ever was one, and it's gone.
well, suppose I feel even less guilty about keeping on my adblocker at all times now, I guess
@Xkeeper project wonderful was, like, the only thing I would have actually considered clicking ads on
@Xkeeper oh no :( I loved PW.
I found several of the web comics I read through Project Wonderful, and I’m sad to see them go.
@Xkeeper and a replacement or alternative will sadly probably not exist :|
@Xkeeper is project wonderful shutting down??
@nightpool yeah, check the thread or see this link: https://www.projectwonderful.com/thanks.php
@Xkeeper The death of the Open Web. So sad...
I'll do everything in my power to bring it back. And then maybe a new Project Wondurful can emerge!
@Xkeeper That is sad news. I wish they let the Internet Archive remember what they were trying to do. At the moment they explicitly block them from archiving anything on their site. https://www.projectwonderful.com/robots.txt
