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Boo-hoo. I tell you what - I remember when internet was ad free, and, boy, was it better by orders of magnitude. I say let the damn apocalypse happen. We'll all
by arpa 11y ago
Boo-hoo. I tell you what - I remember when internet was ad free, and, boy, was it better by orders of magnitude. I say let the damn apocalypse happen. We'll all be better off not being the lucky 100,000th visitors.
- coldpie 11y agoYeah, that's the thing. These sky-is-falling articles always complain that content on the Internet will end if advertising fails. Well, it won't. I put out content on my blog for free. I pay for a handful of sites that I use. I pay for products from websites that I enjoy. There are ways to put content on the web without harming your users. Maybe we'll have less content, or lower quality content, but frankly I would prefer that over the god-awful user experience that we have today.
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y ago> Maybe we'll have less content, or lower quality content... If anything, the lowest-common-denominator low quality content seems to be the biggest earner as far as advertising is concerned. Whole industries are built around churning out pages full of nothing just to generate clicks! I'm not familiar with your blog, but if it's anything like the millions of other passionate personal blogs out there the content is probably orders of magnitude more useful and interesting than the output of the likes of Gawker or Buzzfeed...