| As they should. Never once have I seen any good outcome of ads on the web. On the user end: - People click scam download buttons or fake links and are blasted with scams or malware. - Nobody I know has ever, not once, purchased something from an ad and been happy with it. The one person I know who did purchase something from a Facebook ad got scammed. - The actual content people want to watch is delayed or interrupted by constant nonsense that they will never engage with. So already there is absolutely no incentive as an end user to want ads. Then over on the content creator end: - Because they work through clicks, ads generate a ton of bad incentives to make divisive content or just otherwise harmful content. See Elsagate for one way this manifests. - For honest creators who make genuinely good and creative works, ads harm them by consistently underpaying them. Only the very absolute peak of content creators make a livable wage from ads alone. See the rise of Patreon and other such subscription methods that they have had to rely on to get away from ad revenue dependency. - Ads also harm honest creators by incentivizing bad actors to steal their work, either by direct reuploads on various platforms or by simple plagiarism. See any Facebook page for stolen content or the whole James Somerton expose that happened a couple years ago for the plagiarism bit. |