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killing the ad industry means killing the current web unless there is another revenue stream

• dingo_bat 10y ago
  It's that so? My experience says otherwise. For example, hn will stay, and so will the linked blog. They don't show ads.
  • sliverstorm 10y ago
    HN is a meta-site. Without ads, there will be dramatically less content to link to.
    • dingo_bat 10y ago
      I marked all the stories that I think are not dependent on ads: https://sli.mg/ztY27D https://sli.mg/ztY27D 18 out of the 30 stories on the first page do not depend on ads. That's good enough for me, even though many interesting things are lost.
    • UweSchmidt 10y ago
      How so? Without ads, the same money will be looking for ways to be spent. The overall efficiency will go up as we'd save the overhead for ads, be less manipulated, can trust the information better ("is this an ad?") and a few shitty business practices will go away.
    • sosuke 10y ago
      Less fluff content perhaps but I remember lots of people wrote great content before ad networks were easy to include on a site. I write content, I'm biased I like my own stuff, but I don't expect revenue and I know plenty of other people would continue to blog without revenue from ads.
• grive 10y ago
  That's a good thing.
• dredmorbius 10y ago
  Information as a public good, financed by an income / wealth indexed content tax, pro-rated to content authors, and/or basic income. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modest_proposal_universal_online_media_payment/?ref=search_posts https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes... Rationale for information as a public good: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_information_goods_and_markets_are_a_poor_match/?ref=search_posts https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_inf... And from Hal Varian (UC Berkeley / Google): http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/japan.html#SECTION00060000000000000000 http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/japan.h... Why micropayments (even with repudiation) won't work: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4r683b/repudiation_as_the_micropayments_killer_feature/?ref=search_posts https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4r683b/repudia... The problem with advertising-financed publishing (from 1909): https://archive.org/stream/commercialismjou00holtuoft#page/02/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/commercialismjou00holtuoft#page/0...
• logfromblammo 10y ago
  To me, that sounds a whole lot like, "shooting a zombie in the head will stop it from getting up again".