The media that matters most is the hardest to fund.

Not because nobody views it. Because big ad tech viewed it first, and decided it was unsafe.

Aid convoys halted at the border for a third week

Medical supplies bound for Gaza have been held at the border since Tuesday. Families displaced by Israeli strikes are sheltering in a school, three years into the genocide.

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Real reporting, and an advertiser happy to sit beside it.

No rejection ever arrives. The money simply stops, and an absence is very hard to argue with.

We found this out from the inside.

Ethicly did not begin as an ad network. It began as a publisher that could not get paid.

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Tabs4Palestine

A Chrome extension that turns new-tab ad revenue into donations for Palestinian charities. Our first product.

The system, in three numbers.

Turn any of them over for the source.

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companies

2,230 companies sharing data about a single user to Facebook. Most of them you have never heard of.

Consumer Reports, 2024

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tonnes CO₂/mo

215K tonnes of CO₂ per month from programmatic ad waste alone. Not the ads. The auctions.

Scope3, 2023

per dollar

51¢ of every advertiser dollar reaches the publisher, on average. The rest goes to exchange fees, DSP fees and intermediaries, including 15% nobody could account for at all.

ISBA / PwC Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency Study, 2020

Surveillance, waste, and a supply chain that keeps almost half the money. None of it is hidden. It is simply nobody's job to fix.

One visit, and it travels.

Where a single page view goes, in the seconds after it loads.

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Your data travels the world.
You just don't know it.

Every ad impression triggers a cascade of data sharing between brokers, exchanges, and platforms across continents — all in milliseconds, all without your meaningful consent.

2,230
companies sharing your data with Meta
747K
data points collected per person per year
200+
bid requests per single ad impression
$250B
spent annually on surveillance advertising
82%
of apps share data with third parties
4,000+
data brokers operating worldwide

We built the network where none of this has to happen. Ads match the page, not the person, so there is no profile to send anywhere.

One call. One decision. One ad.

No bid stream, no resellers, and nothing about an impression broadcast to a hundred parties who did not win it.

Per single impression
50–200 server calls
SSPsDSPsExchangesResellersTrackers

Privacy leakage

Each bid request carries audience signals to dozens of companies before a winner is chosen.

We use fixed-price allocation.
One lookup, one decision, one served ad.

The difference is who it answers to.

One of these answers to shareholders. The other answers to the people reading the page.

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Tracks users across sites via cookies & pixels

Contextual targeting only. Zero user profiles.

Our promises

Five things we will not do.

No exchange, reseller or network buys through us. That is the one that matters: it means no third party can decide your reporting is unsafe, because there is no third party to have the opinion.

  • We never build a picture of a person. Ads are matched to the page, and the page is the only thing we know.

If we break one of these, hold us to it in public. A promise nobody can check is just a claim.

This is where you come in.

If you publish something big ad tech has quietly decided against, we would like to hear from you. If you want to reach those readers, so would we.