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Whenever advertising makes me angry, I think of all the free things I wouldn't have without it.

• hueving 8y ago
  Like? You can't really know that you wouldn't have open source, p2p versions of the things you use today that you assume can only exist because of advertising.
  • jimmy1 8y ago
    Of course I can't prove what may or may not happen. I just know that I do in fact have these things today because of advertising.
• komali2 8y ago
  What free things wouldn't you have without it? What do you think the cost would be for these free things without advertising? The biggest downside I can think of is while I would happily pay for Google search (per search, subscription, whatever) in an ad free world, there's lots of people who simply wouldn't bother to search and learn new things. Really though I think they have a good model for their search page, it's unobtrusive and not rude, and it made them the most powerful tech company in silicon valley, so clearly it works. Wonder why other adtechs had to get so much shittier about it.
• King-Aaron 8y ago
  Do you mean like, t-shirts and mugs you've gotten from promotions?
  • ry_ry 8y ago
    I suspect they meant Gmail and suchlike. But free tshirts are pretty nifty.
• SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  Like Facebook?
• deleted 8y ago
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