>does nothing to prevent the promulgation of "bad" content (think clickbait) agreed, that can be combated by training, teaching, education, etc. you cant make

>does nothing to prevent the promulgation of "bad" content (think clickbait) agreed, that can be combated by training, teaching, education, etc. you cant make tools and not advertise them or convince people to use them. you either convince them or manipulate people into using them (through advertising or gamification) youre right, chasing ads makes for bad content, but newspapers have always been content mills to support the hard hitting journalism. the alternative could be tax funded journalism (npr, pbs, bbc) or one of the many startups that try to track what you read and then pay out accordingly.