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by ariwilson 3826 days ago
Correspondingly, if there were no ads there would be many fewer small websites.
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natch 3826 days ago
Absolutely true. Fewer, but better quality.

With money as a motivator, we have ended up with a lot of keyword-spammy poor quality content.

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mike_hearn 3826 days ago
Why better quality?

A whole lot of the sites I spend most time with are ad supported. It's not clear to me why less money == more quality, in your eyes.

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marak830 3825 days ago
I dont know if i agree (im on the fence), but he did mebtiob spammy click bait titles.

There would be a hell of ablot less of those if there were no ad revenue(as ads are loaded when you enter they authors dobt care if you read those spammy articles, just load the damn page).

I would like to velieve this is true, but im not sure it would be(in the case of getting well written articles without ads).

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