While it churns, that pause becomes one tasteful, cookieless?No cookies, no tracking IDs — views and clicks are counted server-side with a one-time token. Zero personal data, no consent banner: GDPR by design. line: a sponsor, a spark of motivation, or dev news — your call. You earn AI credits (your 50%) to spend on any model, we never read your code, and it's hosted in Europe.
Surfaces
One cookieless sponsor line, rendered natively on every surface a developer lives in. No logos to load, no scripts phoning home.
a sponsor line in your terminal status line
an in-editor sponsor line while the agent works
a webview slot that never patches the editor
one line inside the thinking spinner
a drop-in slot for docs, dashboards & newsletters
How it works
Three steps. About a minute. Nothing to configure.
Run one command. It wires a cookieless sponsor line into your status line — and patches nothing.
npx entracteThat dead wait becomes one tasteful, in-context line: a sponsor, a spark of motivation, or dev news — your call.
Every impression on your surfaces credits your half, automatically and cookieless.
Credited as AI credits — spend them on Claude, ChatGPT or any model, or cash out from €10.
Install
No SDK, no account wall. Install, and your first cookieless sponsor is live in seconds.
$npx entracteUninstall anytime with npx entracte --uninstall.
Live market
Real numbers pulled from the ad server right now — transparent, real-time, no vanity metrics.
This page runs on entracte
A real, cookieless slot. With no paid campaign live you see the house ad — the slot is never empty.
Advertise
A fixed price per 1,000 views — never an auction, never more. Cookieless and RGPD-native, one sponsor per placement.
| Tier | Price / 1k views | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Run of network | €3.00 | any developer surface |
| Topic-targeted | €4.00 – €6.00 | backend, DevOps, AI… |
| EU-premium | €5.00 – €7.50 | EU developer audience |
Fixed price, never more. cookieless · RGPD-native · EU-hosted
Trust
Privacy isn't a setting here — it's the architecture.
Contextual targeting on language, framework and topic — cookieless?No cookies, no tracking IDs — views and clicks are counted server-side with a one-time token. Zero personal data, no consent banner: GDPR by design., with no device IDs and no consent banner. Ever.
Views and clicks are counted server-side with a one-time token. Zero personal data leaves your machine.
EU data residency end to end. No transatlantic hop, no surprise sub-processor.
Not your source, not your prompts, not your conversations — only the public context of the page.
The ad server and the credit logic are source-available (PolyForm Noncommercial) — read every line yourself.
FAQ
Your 50% of what advertisers actually pay for impressions on your surfaces. Today that's mostly the house ad; it grows as advertisers bid on your surfaces. Honest numbers, no inflated projections.
As AI credits — spendable on Claude, ChatGPT or any model — credited automatically. Prefer cash? Cash-out is the fallback, available from €10.
Always. entracte never reads your source, your prompts or your conversations. It only sees the public context of the page to pick a relevant sponsor.
No cookies, no tracking IDs, no fingerprinting. Views and clicks are counted server-side with a one-time token, so there's zero personal data and no consent banner — RGPD by design.
It's source-available under the PolyForm Noncommercial licence — not OSI open source, but every line is public and auditable. Read it on the verify page.
Monetize the wait with taste — or reach the developers doing the waiting.