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by Joker_vD 1360 days ago
But that advertising money still come from somewhere and someone, right? Surely there is some other way to make those someones to spend that money on the internet and all related technology?
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That someone is the one watching the ad by buying products the person sees in ads
Back in 2015, there was this "The Website Obesity Crisis" talk that claimed [0], among other things, that in fact most money in the ad industry is coming not from the ad-seeing consumers, but from VC investors. Has something changed in 7 years? Or was it never true in the first place?

[0] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#fatads