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HN is a meta-site. Without ads, there will be dramatically less content to link to.
by sliverstorm 10y ago
HN is a meta-site. Without ads, there will be dramatically less content to link to.
- dingo_bat 10y agoI 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 agoHow 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 agoLess 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.