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Why? I really don't understand why people think that ads of all things need saving. I understand the desire to make money flow towards the content creators. I
by CodeMage 10y ago
Why? I really don't understand why people think that ads of all things need saving.
I understand the desire to make money flow towards the content creators. I understand the desire for free content. I understand that the ads seem to "solve" both of those problems. I just don't understand why people think it's better to keep investing our time and energy into trying to save ads instead of looking for alternative solutions.
So why ads?
- news_to_me 10y agoFor one reason, it's the system we have now. There's a lot of industry inertia that would simply be easier to keep than throw away and switch to a new system. If you want to convince everyone to switch, the question is really, "Why not just ads?", especially if it's relatively easy to fix the problems we face now. From a practical perspective, you need to convince all the stakeholders to abandon ads, which isn't easy. But yeah, personally I'd prefer a different system. I really like the idea of micropayments, but I don't know how that would look exactly.