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If every company stopped advertising then google and facebook and twitter will disappear. Are all these companies pure waste? How do you fund a replacement for
by amiune 7y ago
If every company stopped advertising then google and facebook and twitter will disappear. Are all these companies pure waste? How do you fund a replacement for them? Should these services be provided by governments?
- asark 7y agoIt wouldn't be that big a deal. Ad-funded commercial services like Facebook and Twitter would probably just be protocols, if not for all those ad dollars incentivizing moat-creation and jealous user capture. We'd figure something out to replace google—the need's too strong not to. The replacement(s) probably wouldn't make $3,000,000/employee or whatever Google does, though. Which is fine.
- amiune 7y agoIt seems that the cancer creates, allows or at least sustain a coordination that society can't achieve by other ways.
- tetraca 7y ago> If every company stopped advertising then google and facebook and twitter will disappear. I don't see the downside.
- kyruzic 7y agoEach of those companies has a FOSS competitor that does not rely on advertising money yet still exists.
- dooglius 7y agoThere's a FOSS competitor to Google?
- abdullahkhalids 7y agoIn principle, yes * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
- kyruzic 7y agoYes. There is plenty. One company that does exactly the same things? No. Companies that do part of what Google does? Absolutely, duckduckgo for search, countless email services to replace gmail, openstreetmaps to replace gmaps, the list goes on.
- hutzlibu 7y agoI do not have the sources by hand, but I think google and co make only about some $ per user per year. In other words, most users could easily afford it. And yes, here is the current problem, the mindset of the people. Not willing to pay for services and rather get it for "free" and accept manipulation and time waste. On the other hand, where services are adfree avaiable, like netflix, users indeed do pay. So I am positive that it is about to change.
- rowanG077 7y agoFacebook and twitter are pure waste. Google is 90% waste. Google should just be a search engine and live on donations like Wikipedia.