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The problem with hosting adult content is that it's pretty hard to monetize it. Advertisers want to be excluded from placements next to adult content, to the p
by iooi 8y ago
The problem with hosting adult content is that it's pretty hard to monetize it.
Advertisers want to be excluded from placements next to adult content, to the point that there's entirely separate ad networks and payment processors that are exclusive to adult content.
I'm guessing that this is the first step of a monetization overhaul for Tumblr, this traffic was only costing them money and they don't see it as a loss of users, more of a good riddance.
- abel212 8y agoThis actually makes a lot of sense. I think there are a lot of concerns about this being an assault on free speech when ultimately it comes down to it just not being profitable to maintain.
- gizmo686 8y agoThe two aren't exclusive. If major platforms of speech are privately owned by profit seeking entities, then the fact that certain kinds of speech are not profitable to host is a threat to free speech.
- krupan 8y agoI think you are confusing gratis with freedom.
- Dylan16807 8y agoYou can't get back into the network by paying, so it boils down to a freedom issue.
- whywhywhywhy 8y ago> Advertisers want to be excluded from placements next to adult content I feel that this is maybe Tumblr's ad teams failing and they could have argued around this. When using the Dashboard the UI design of the system felt very much like every post on that screen was there because your chose it to be there so even if you injected ads into it there was never the feeling that ads were next to pornography posts because your feed was only ever full of pornography if you actively followed people who post it. It was all manually curated by you not an algorithm system like Twitter, Gyphy, Imgur etc.