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by DanielBMarkham
3338 days ago
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"...while denying them any realistic way to pay for that service seems bit too entitled for me..." No realistic way that you can think of. Simply because you can't figure it out and nobody else has figured it out doesn't mean it's impossible. After all, why should anything change if there's no need to? The ad model is broken. If you want to run ads, get on your content management system and hand-type in your own ads. Own them. Don't toss off the responsibility for what appears on your site to a bunch of third-party yahoos. If that's as much as you care about the user experience, why the hell shouldn't they block whatever tripe is coming down the line? |
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At my age I probably have even less patience with the "if I don't know how then nobody does" attitude than you do. Nonetheless, until an alternative solution to that problem is discovered, we're stuck with ads. We can make them better, but we can't realistically demand that they go away unless we also accept that everything currently funded by ads goes away too. I don't just mean Google and Facebook. I also mean the advertisers whose business models depend on those platforms and whose products would not be on the market otherwise. Ads don't just support big companies. They also support moms and pops, and BTW charities use ads too.
So you want that reality to change? Good for you. Seriously. But what are you contributing to that effort? What's your great idea for easing our dependence on ads? I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts.