The "ad model" of the internet consists in tracking your activity, your preferences and ultimately your thoughts, in order to show you content that someone else pays money for you to see.

#Nostr improves the content part of this equation, in that you can finely curate what you see. A relay could probably bundle ads in together with the notes you subscribed to, but you could filter out anything not coming from your subscribed npubs at the client level. Of course, any client could also show you ads, or modify your feed, but you always have the choice of switching to another client.

On the other hand, I don't think Nostr is improving the tracking part of the story. Since all your notes, likes, zaps and other Nostr events are public (AFAIK), they constitute a lot of data for advertisers to mine and use. Whereas social media platforms jealously hoard your data to monetize it to advertisers, Nostr data is just up for grabs to anyone. Is there any thinking going into this issue?

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