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Because it's one of the most important sources of funding for tech companies (justified or not).
by creshal 11y ago
Because it's one of the most important sources of funding for tech companies (justified or not).
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAnd it became so probably because it's easiest - you can build whatever crap you want, slap some ads on top and earn $$$. In time, the whole industry learned that it's not even worth to improve the actual utility of the product - focusing on sexiness and addictiviness is better, because it drives even more ad views.
- njharman 11y agoNot really. There is a niche of social companies (twitter,facebook,google search engine) that make money from ads. There is a niche of media companies (youtube) that make money from ads. There is a nice of startups which make money from Funding/IPOs. These niches are a focus of HN and get talked about way out of proportion of their representational percentage. Most most tech companies make products and get funding from sales (netflix, amazon, apple, ibm, microsoft, 99% of the Enterprise and 99% of small-medium market).