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>nothing ever bad happens. With ads: either it takes me half a second to tell I'm not interested in an ad, or I actually am interested and i follow the ad becau
by hnaccy 7y ago
>nothing ever bad happens. With ads: either it takes me half a second to tell I'm not interested in an ad, or I actually am interested and i follow the ad because I am interested and I want to support the website.
You just described something bad.
- mrep 7y agoAssuming you mean that half second looking at the ad: Name a better alternative for funding the internet. Paywalls at every website?
- Nicksil 7y ago>Assuming you mean that half second looking at the ad: Name a better alternative for funding the internet. Paywalls at every website? Funding the Internet? What you're talking about (ads) is a revenue stream for what amounts to a handful of websites. google.com, amazon.com, ycombinator.com, reddit.com, thefacebook.com, tweeter.com, etc. could all go offline right now and the Internet would still be here.
- gugagore 7y agoThat doesn't sound right. What about all the other websites with ads, like recipe sites, guitar chords, porn, diy, etc.? or apps on the Google play store with ads?
- luckylion 7y agoI run sites that don't have ads. I don't make any money off of them. I still run them. Seems like a lot of people in software development think similarly.
- sleavey 7y agoThis is the web that I like. Hobbyists and volunteers running low-fi websites for common interests. I'm not against commercial sites like Netflix but don't think every last blog should be monetised.
- ajoy39 7y agoHow do you pay your bills? If running those websites were your full time job, would you still be okay not making any money off of them? Or have you just decided that only people who have other income should have websites?
- Nicksil 7y agoI don't understand your question; what about them? The websites are just nodes of the Internet. And I don't understand at all why you brought up Google app store apps, so I'll refrain from commenting on that until I better understand your point.
- gugagore 7y agoIt doesn't feel like a handful of websites. It feels like the dominant experience of the internet for most people. Ads are a source of revenue for many more websites than just a handful. They are also a source of revenue for more than a handful of apps. I
- dorgo 7y agoAn open, transparent, convenient, anonymous protocol for micro payments, with good cost contol build into browsers.
- VMG 7y agoIt is coming :) https://lightningjoule.com/ https://lightningjoule.com/
- tripzilch 7y agoYou really seem to care a lot about this, let me guess, you work in adtech?
- daveFNbuck 7y agoWhat's bad about supporting a site you like while learning about something that interests you? If this were really all ads were I wouldn't block them.
- johnchristopher 7y agoThat's not what the post says at all.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoThe person who I am responding to said the following describes something bad: > either it takes me half a second to tell I'm not interested in an ad, or I actually am interested and i follow the ad because I am interested and I want to support the website The second half of that sentence is precisely what I'm describing. Do you disagree with my characterization of that sentence? I assume they included that part in the quote rather than cutting it off earlier because this was part of what they were saying is bad. Do you disagree with me there?