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> without costing the end user anything The logical consequence of such statement is that the ad brokers/trackers/data miners pay themselves by printing their
by gorhill 11y ago
> without costing the end user anything
The logical consequence of such statement is that the ad brokers/trackers/data miners pay themselves by printing their own money.
Of course this makes no sense, and thus the statement is certainly flawed. There is a cost to end user -- it's just very well obfuscated.
- manigandham 11y ago> And yes, nothing is completely "free" - I'm just arguing about monetary access. Ads means you're paying with attention which has it's own costs and externalities. Just wrote that in another comment. For the mainstream audience of 3 billion people online, the monetary cost outweighs the rest.