[mrtksn]

Sure but this means that you’re no longer eligible to make living from your ideas, which can be fine by you but it eliminates entire class of people who used to make living from intellectual work.

This also could have been fine, it can bring back authenticity however for this to happen no one should be making money from it. Instead, only megacorps make money and they can just ignore your ideas and generate theirs. They control the distribution and the supply now.

[satvikpendem]

Not making a living from ads specifically, sure, but many have things like Substack which actually directly incentivizes them to make good content rather than serving ads.

[nicbou]

Substack is not all websites. There are more than one kind of website out there.