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hestiaAI / ad-radar

Ad Radar - a browser extension that shows information about the ads you see online - developed by Hestia for The Eyeballs.
https://eyeballs.hestialabs.org/
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Real time conversion of bid currencies #13

Open streitl opened 3 years ago

streitl commented 3 years ago

Right now, when we don't know the winner for some ad slot, and it has received bids in different currencies, we just show the value of a random bid instead of the most expensive one since we cannot compare them. Also, in the visualisation page, we show the cumulative revenues as if they were all in USD, but some might be in EUR (namely on ledauphine.fr).

I think we would really benefit from integrating a real time currency converter such as money.js (it doesn't load the exchange rates automatically, we would have to decide how, when, and how often to download this information). We could imagine having a settings/options page for the extension (or inside the extension popup page) that would allow us to pick our preferred currency, and every banner and visualisation would use it.

@pdehaye @foucault-dumas any thoughts?

foucault-dumas commented 3 years ago

Inside the extension popup page. Can't the default set-up depend on the location of the user?

streitl commented 3 years ago

It could but I don't know how reliable this would be, and we would also have to extract personal information from the users (location data) which is not ideal in my opinion. A solution could be to have a setup page appear when you install the extension (this is doable) where the user can choose their preferred display currency.