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Because they aren't as rich as you and can't afford paying for everything with cash, but would be happy to pay with their attention.
by ucaetano 9y ago
Because they aren't as rich as you and can't afford paying for everything with cash, but would be happy to pay with their attention.
- rosser 9y agoThey aren't just paying "with their attention" — but also with having all of their behavior, across the entire web, recorded, tracked, and modeled by folks with demonstrably unclean hands, whose incentives are aligned against them. That is a categorically different bargain than merely having something that competes with the content for their attention. Just because the viewer may be ignorant of it doesn't mean they aren't (implicitly) making it.
- pjmlp 9y agoI am not rich and also cannot afford to pay everything I would like to have, neither everything that is free is worth my attention.
- hueving 9y agoAdvertisers don't want the attention of people that can't pay for things. People rich enough to pay for things are essentially subsidizing everyone else in the ad model with an irritating ad middleman. Subsidizing is fine, but let's be explicit about it with a library instead and avoid these gross privacy invasions.