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by fidotron 530 days ago
That is true, and part of that would have to be enabling people to make money from web type content without shoving ads in it (or it being an ad for something else).

My personal, controversial, conception of the future is to return to the notion of the Internet as a network of other networks, and then enable devs and content creators to sell apps and experiences which operate privately within those networks.

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> That is true, and part of that would have to be enabling people to make money from web type content without shoving ads in it (or it being an ad for something else).

While I think that would be good, I did say personalized advertising, not all advertising. If every visitor to site.com sees the same rotation of ads, there's no need to track anybody. Still obnoxious and a vector for malware, of course. But not really the same problem.

> My personal, controversial, conception of the future is to return to the notion of the Internet as a network of other networks, and then enable devs and content creators to sell apps and experiences which operate privately within those networks.

It never really was that, you know. And I think putting everybody in walled gardens would be even worse than ad spyware.