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I feel like advertisements ruin everything. I remember driving onto the my air force base and being thankful that all the visual pollution was gone. It was li
by sesteel 8y ago
I feel like advertisements ruin everything. I remember driving onto the my air force base and being thankful that all the visual pollution was gone. It was like stepping into another world. Now the internet has ads everywhere. I find the attention economy awful and dystopian. I'd gladly pay to never see another ad.
- emit_time 8y agoI’ve come to hate ads for how much they try to get me to buy things I don’t need. Sure you can say something about willpower whatever, but constantly being bombarded by them is horrible. I’m pretty happy with what I have, I don’t need all this stuff. But advertising makes me want stuff I don’t need. I don’t feel bad about blocking advertising to improve my quality of life.
- sesteel 8y agoI don't even pay attention to them; they are just there as visual noise. I worry a lot about the world we've created and where this is all heading. I like to wrangle some of these problems, maybe create a "no ad" network. You pay into a pool and the money is doled out to various businesses based on what you spend your time doing: games, websites, etc.
- dest 8y agoFlattr? Patreon? Google contributor?
- anitil 8y agoI remember reading about someone that built a system where you put $X in to a pot every month, and every page you visit gets $X/pages_visited. This allows you to directly monetize creators without ads. I cannot for the life of me find it - does it ring any bells with anyone?
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- pjc50 8y agoFlattr? Brave?
- ryanschneider 8y agoSo this is how I originally thought Brave was going to work, but it’s unclear to me now if that’s actually the case: https://brave.com/faq/#do-i-have-to-pay https://brave.com/faq/#do-i-have-to-pay
- Cyphase 8y agoIronically(?), Google Contributor is a thing: https://contributor.google.com/ https://contributor.google.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
- hug 8y agoBlendle, perhaps?
- pjc50 8y agoHow many years do you think it is before someone pays to put ads on the Blackhawks and Humvees? (I think this was a throwaway idea in Snow Crash)
- sesteel 8y agoI get your point, but in the US, I don't think military leaders would ever let that happen. Being in the military feels like living in a heavily socialist country within a heavily capitalist one. The experiences could be amazing (good and horrific), but what I most noted was how different it felt from being a private citizen. It is a strange dichotomy.
- techiferous 8y agoYou'd love visiting Vermont. They banned billboards in 1968.
- huac 8y agoI felt the same way when driving through Cuba: some billboards, but all with government propaganda, and none advertising products.