Today in “you can’t make this shit up”

  • Dreeg Ocedam
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    163 years ago

    I don’t mind seeing ads

    I do. I hold the advertisement model as responsible for the state of the web today. We need to find another revenue model for funding web content, otherwise we’ll be stuck with zero privacy on the web and saturated with low effort, click-bait content.

    • @someone@lemmy.ml
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      23 years ago

      Me too. Not only is it bad for slow internet, privacy and makes many web pages look like utter shit, when I go to a website I don’t want to see ads I want to see the content they out out.

    • Geotechland
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      13 years ago

      I should clarify, I don’t mind seeing ads on youtube compared to twitter.

      But in general I prefer not to have ads and instead be entirely community funded/donations.

      The problem is, a lot of people don’t have money to spare especially these days.

      And, to be fair, this advertising model on youtube gave rise to new media which overall has been a good thing and an answer to cable news propaganda.

    • @throwaway96581@lemmy.ml
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      03 years ago

      Bitcoin while there were still room in the blocks did solve that problem. Most people just didn’t and still don’t understand that. Just think of it as some kind of investment scheme or something used by criminals.