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by white-flame 3384 days ago
The web wasn't built on an economic foundation of ad revenue. The web was built on the economic foundation of both university-provided and personally/privately funded servers.

What ad revenue did was wildly expand the number of people trying to exploit the web for revenue, by generating sheer quantity regardless of content. I agree that that's a shaky foundation to base the web on.

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I don't think you can just throw out everything produced by professional newspapers as useless content.
Just 90% of it.