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This seems like you're assuming the conclusion. When you say, "readers won't pay for sites [and sites cost money]", there are only a few solutions, and they all
by oconnore 11y ago
This seems like you're assuming the conclusion. When you say, "readers won't pay for sites [and sites cost money]", there are only a few solutions, and they all involve non-readers paying for the reader<->site interaction.
As a result, your only solution is hand-wringing about ad blockers, which probably won't result in "advertisers are going to figure out a away around these things", because browsers have complete control over what is displayed.
If you don't do this, things get more interesting:
- "People won't pay for sites" -> make sites that they will pay for.
- "non-readers paying for the reader<->site interaction" -> how can this be consensual, positive? (there are approximately seventy-three people, total, who enjoy web ads. Superbowl doesn't count.)
- "[ad supported websites are a good thing]" -> can they be supported publicly?
- "ad supported websites disappear" -> maybe in some cases that isn't bad.
- "ad supported websites disappear" -> "most people will not pay to use a website" stops being true.
- adamredwoods 11y agoSome small websites won't survive, unless they create free content. Newspaper sites will die, save one or two. People don't want to have to subscribe to 10 different sites, so I suspect it will go the way of a single pay network that owns several pay websites. It will end up being Comcast of the internet, who controls which websites you can access for $99/month.