• Defaced@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have YouTube premium included in my pixel pass subscription, so this doesn’t necessarily effect me. However, you have a grossly uninformed opinion on data and how it works. You think data caps and fast lanes would’ve saved us from advertising? I’m sorry but the sad truth is it wouldn’t have, the money from the ISPs isn’t going to trickle down to the website owners, that’s not how it works, that’s not how any of this works. That’s kind of one of the big arguments against data caps and fast lanes, it limits those websites from receiving traffic and in turn ad revenue. If anything those data caps would make things worse.

    • joe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think he means that instead of everything on the early internet being ad supported, they should have just made people pay. Think about it; how much of our problems are because everything is a race to the bottom to capture the most eyeballs? Clickbait, recommended algorithms designed to make you angry, news as entertainment, etc.

      This was always the outcome of ads. If you want it to stop, start directly paying for things. If you want to continue this arms race to the bottom, keep doing what we’ve been doing. (not you you)

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      1 year ago

      You have a grossly misinterpreted understanding of my comment. We pay for things like data because it just being free would never work.

      Just like youtube or spotify being free has never really worked. I’m saying we should start paying for services like those the same way we pay for our data plans.

      Which part of my comment made you think I was suggesting our data plans should somehow pay for our web services? That would be fucking stupid.